Engineering problems foiled initial uncrewed flight from Kennedy Space Centre five days earlier
The Artemis I unmanned lunar rocket sits on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center, Florida, on September 2nd. Photograph: Chandan Khann/AFP via Getty ImagesThe US space agency Nasa has again postponed the planned launch of its new moon rocket due to technical issues.
The new rocket, known as the space launch system, had been scheduled to blast off from Florida on Saturday afternoon, local time. However, the plan was abandoned after engineers failed to resolve a liquid hydrogen leak that they had spent most of the morning trying to address. On Saturday morning, local time, Nasa said: “We have a scrub for the day, a cutoff, of the launch attempt for Artemis 1,”This is the second time in a week that Nasa has been forced to cancel the planned launch. On Monday the launch was called off due to apparent problems with the temperature of one of its engines.I mission to the Moon has been postponed. Teams attempted to fix an issue related to a leak in the hardware transferring fuel into the rocket, but were unsuccessful.
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