NASA has delayed the second Moon rocket launch attempt. The main reason for delaying the launch, according to NASA, is a fuel leak in the rocket. Scientists from NASA are currently investigating the cause of the rocket’s fuel leaks. News of a second attempt to launch this rocket by a NASA special team broke earlier on Saturday evening. 50 years after the last Apollo lunar mission, NASA might restart the Mars Artemis program from the Moon with this flight.
Let us tell you that on Monday, just before its Artemis mission, NASA decided to postpone Chandrayaan’s test flight. Due to last-minute temperature concerns in one of its four RS-25 engines, the launch was postponed. Now, the Artemis 1 mission will lift off a few days later. This unmanned flight is a part of an ambitious plan to travel to the Moon first, then carry out this plan on Mars.
8:33 a.m. Artemis Space Program (1233 GMT) A 322-foot Space Launch System rocket without a crew was scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space St. in Florida 50 years after the astronauts first set foot on the moon during the Apollo 17 mission. The SLS and the Orion capsule that would be mounted on top of the rocket were to be tested during the Artemis 1 flight. Due to a lightning strike, the nighttime operation to pump more than three million litres of extremely cold liquid hydrogen and oxygen into the rocket was delayed. Around three in the morning, a second issue surfaced, necessitating the suspension of work on hydrogen filling because of the potential for leaking.
Nasa has made the following statements on why the mission failed again
During tanking of the #Artemis I mission, a leak developed in the supply side of the 8-inch quick disconnect while attempting to transfer fuel to the rocket. Attempts to fix it so far have been unsuccessful. Stand by for updates.
