NASA announced the start of the Artemis 1 moon mission “blue cloth training” in two days, on Tuesday (April 12).
The agency plans to re -launch the wet suit – a rocket fueling innovation and other major events. Artemisa 1 prelaunch activities – today (April 9) at Pad 39B of the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida.
However, the missionary team decided to change the test procedure after discovering a problem with the “helium check valve,” which prevents gas from escaping from the large Artemis 1. Funeral system (SLS) rubber. Helium is used to clean up the engine lines before launching and discharging the propellant, NASA officials explained in a Artemis 1 today (opens on new page).
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The modified wet suit is heavily invested “in tanking the [SLS] the base site, as well as small propellant operations at the interim cryogenic propulsion stage (ICPS) with the ground system at Kennedy, ”the official wrote in the update.
“Due to changes in the procedures required for the modified test, the preparation of the clothing line has begun with a call to the centers on Tuesday, April 12 and tanking at on Friday, April 14, ”they added.
This was not the first delay in preparing the Artemis 1 wet dress. The trial began on April 1, and the missionary team expected to finish things about 48 hours later, on April 3. . some problems have arisenwith a glitch with the fan system on the SLS’s main telephone release tower and a fixed suspension window in the building.
These problems were delayed at first and then ended the experiment, as the Artemis 1 team stood down to welcome the launch of Axiom Space. Ax-1 missionary to the International Space Station. Ax-1 left yesterday (April 8) from KSC’s Pad 39A, near 39B, and her departure cleared the way for the continuation of Artemis 1’s blue dress.
Artemis 1 will introduce an uncrewed Orion aircraft on a one -month tour. NASA has not set a start date until the wet cloth training is complete and the teams have searched for final data, but the missionary is unlikely to leave before June.
If all goes well with Artemis 1, Artemis 2 will introduce astronauts around the moon in 2024 and Artemis 3 will launch a group near the left lunar pole in 2025 or 2026.
Mike Wall is the author of “Outside (opens on new page)“(Grand Central Publishing, 2018; edited by Karl Tate), a book about exploring alien life. Follow him on Twitter @michaeldwall (opens on new page). Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom (opens on new page) or at Facebook (opens on new page).
