NASA canceled a critical test of its moon rocket Artemis 1 on Sunday due to safety concerns with earthworms on the fixed -motion platform.
The engineers planned to burn Artemis 1 megarocket, called the Space Launch System (SLS), with 700,000 gallons of super-cold propellant on Sunday (April 3) at Pad 39B of the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The wood test is the final stage of a three -day “blue cloth test” planned to test the score system for NASA’s Artemis 1 mission next month.
But a problem with the Artemis 1 rocket’s mobile launcher, a site attached to its gantry tower and other equipment, ended the experiment, NASA officials said. A system that uses fans to compress the circuit breaker and store undetectable harmful gases.
“Fans need to give good pressure to the areas trapped in the explosive device and keep out the dangerous gases,” NASA wrote in an update Sunday. “The technologies cannot be maintained safely with the introduction of propellants in the base of the rocket and during the cryogenic propulsion stage without this capability.”
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With Sunday’s test, NASA’s next attempt at making firewood could be done before Monday (April 4), but NASA will have to weigh in on the availability of fuel. fuel – the SLS rocket uses liquid oxygen and liquid hydrogen as propellant – and a starter. directories.
NASA’s Artemis 1 SLS rocket is stationed on Pad 39B, which is attached to Launch Pad 39A, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket designed to launch four private astronauts at the International Space Station on Wednesday (April 6) on the Ax-1 mission for the team. Axiom Space. The launch of the Ax-1 mission was delayed from an April 3 target to make way for NASA’s Artemis 1 test.
Agency officials said the Ax-1 mission must be released on April 7 or to avoid further delays in the release of a SpaceX astronaut for NASA, a mission called Crew- 4 is currently scheduled for April 20, to take in four new astronauts. the International Space Station of NASA.
“The teams will discuss the scope and availability of customers in the form of a preliminary design,” NASA officials said of the Artemis 1 test of expansion. A press conference is scheduled at 5:30 pm EDT (2130 GMT) to discuss the design of the office.
Artemis 1 is NASA’s first lunar trip of the Artemis project, which aims to return astronauts to the lunar surface by 2025 or so. The mission will use NASA’s first Space Launch System rocket to launch an uncrewed Orion spacecraft around the moon and return it to Earth.
If all goes well with the flight, NASA plans to introduce a full -moon Orion spacecraft around the moon in 2023 and followed by an Artemis 3 crewed landing mission sometime later.
The Artemis 1 “blue dress rehearsal” plays an important role in making sure the SLS rocket is ready for launch. The booster is NASA’s most powerful rocket and the company’s first lunar rocket since its Saturn V rocket was released to Apollo astronauts in the 1960s and 1970s.
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