NASA to attempt Artemis 1 relaunch as early as Friday after 1st test scrubbed | FULL

NASA’s Artemis 1 mission manager Mike Sarafin said during a briefing on Monday that the launch team will attempt a relaunch of the SLS-Orion rocket as early as Friday, pending a data review, after the first launch was scrubbed due to an engine-cooling problem.

“Friday is definitely still in play, we just need a little bit of time to look at the data, but the team is setting up for a 96-hour recycle so they’re still holding the launch countdown configuration and we’re preserving the option for Friday.” He said.

The problem surfaced as fuel tanks of the space launch system (SLS) rocket were being filled with super-cooled liquid oxygen and hydrogen propellants.

Launch teams began a "conditioning process” to chill the engines sufficiently for liftoff, but one of the four main engines failed to cool down as expected, prompting launch team managers to pause the countdown.

NASA plans to use the massive new rocket for future astronaut flights back to the moon, more than 50 years after Apollo's last lunar mission.

The Artemis 1 mission calls for a six-week, uncrewed test flight of Orion around the moon and back to earth for a splashdown in the pacific.

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