The launch date for NASA's Artemis 1 moon mission has been pushed back due to problems and storms, and a deadline for its solid rocket boosters is fast approaching.
The launch of Artemis 1 which will use a Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, aided by two boosters, to send an uncrewed Orion capsule to the moon was once again delayed, this time until no later than Wednesday. Satellite images show Nicole currently looming in the Atlantic Ocean next to NASA's Kennedy Space Center, generating wind speeds up to 70 mph as it closes in on the center's Launch Pad 39B, where the Artemis 1 stack sits.
The Artemis 1 moon mission has been delayed a second time, and there are concerns that some of its hardware may have expired. The mission's two solid rocket boosters are nearing several deadlines. NASA will have to analyze the boosters if Artemis 1 does not launch by mid-December.
The Artemis 1 moon launch has been delayed due to a tropical storm.
Several components of the SLS vehicle's boosters are approaching their current expiration dates based on the most recent analyses that team members have conducted.
The senior vehicle operations manager of the Exploration Ground Systems Program at KSC told reporters that a countdown starts when a rocket is loaded. The Artemis 1 vehicle is nearing the end of its lifespan.
Lanhan said that you start a clock that was originally 12 months after stacking your first segment. It has been analyzed for up to 23 months. One piece expires on the ninth of December and the other on the 14th of December.
The environmental exposure rating is due to end in December.
Jim Free, associate administrator of the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate at NASA headquarters in Washington, D.C., said that if Artemis 1 doesn't launch by those dates, the mission team would have to conduct further analyses to determine if the expired dates on the rocket's various components
When we have to go back and redo the analysis, each of them has a different revisit date. "It's more a function of when do we feel like those assumptions are no longer good and the boosters fall into that category." I don't think we can just go forever, so I would be doing our team and you a disservice if I said that. Every time we look at the analysis, we think about what could have changed.
The launch of Artemis 1 is expected to take place at 1:04 a.m. On Wednesday, the time is 0604GMT. The launch will send an uncrewed capsule to the moon. The launch will be the first mission of the Artemis program which will eventually see humans return to the moon near the lunar south pole in 2025.
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