Artemis launch

NASA began fueling its massive new rocket early Saturday (Sept. 3), setting the stage for a critical Artemis 1 test flight to the moon.

NASA is encountering new problems with its second attempt to launch its massive Space Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft to the moon.

This time, they used helium to pressurize the line, but this did not work either. They also started loading the liquid hydrogen, but at about 7:15 a.m. But when they started to reflow the hydrogen, they noticed another leak.

The 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 ...

The current mission, known as Artemis 1, is uncrewed and is essentially a test flight to put the various parts of the system through their paces. This could lead to a delay of several weeks in the launch. This is the second time in a week that Nasa has been forced to cancel the planned launch.

NASA will attempt to launch its new mega-moon rocket this evening, and you might even see it from your back garden.

If Artemis I completes a successful 38-day mission, travelling 64,000km beyond the moon and back, NASA can move forward with plans to send astronauts on Artemis II in 2024, with another human moon landing scheduled for 2025. Artemis I is only the beginning of several new space systems that will culminate in putting man back on the moon again by 2025. The spacecraft aims to orbit the moon after nearly a week of troubleshooting following several glitches that foiled its original launch on Monday.

NASA's new moon rocket sprang another hazardous leak Saturday, as the launch team began fueling it for liftoff on a test flight that must go well before ...

The launch team planned to ignore the faulty sensor this time around and rely on other instruments to ensure each main engine was properly chilled. If not, the resulting damage could lead to an abrupt engine shutdown and aborted flight. On Monday, hydrogen fuel escaped from elsewhere in the rocket. People last walked on the moon 50 years ago. NASA wants to send the crew capsule atop the rocket around the moon, pushing it to the limit before astronauts get on the next flight. But minutes later, hydrogen fuel began leaking from the engine section at the bottom of the rocket.

It was not immediately clear if space agency will be able to make fixes in time to meet next backup launch date of Monday.

Officials said they had identified that problem as a faulty sensor rather than an issue with the cooling system or engine itself. “This is part of the space business,” he said. It was the second time in five days that technical issues had kept the spacecraft on the launchpad. [postponement of the first launch attempt](https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/29/artemis-scrubbed-nasa-cancels-moon-launch-engine) last Monday. [Space](https://www.theguardian.com/science/space) Center waited until late in the countdown to scrub the liftoff after the failure of several workarounds to try to plug the leak of liquid hydrogen as it was being pumped into the core stage of the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. [Nasa](https://www.theguardian.com/science/nasa) officials said the next attempt would be delayed until at least the end of September.