A fuel leak was discovered during NASA's Artemis I moon rocket launch on Saturday, which was the US space agency's second attempt to deliver its lunar rocket to the moon. The next launch window could be between September 19 and October 4, or in the second part of October, as NASA reports that the launch will not occur on the next scheduled date of September 6. Before humans try the expedition, Artemis I, the organization's initial step toward returning humans to the Moon, will test the journey.
NASA announced in a news conference that it will not seek to launch the spacecraft within the current launch window, which ends on September 6, after the Artemis I SLS-Orion spacecraft launch was aborted on Saturday. The US space agency claimed that the launch was aborted because liquid hydrogen was still being fed into the rocket when a leak was discovered close to the base of the rocket.
Jim Free, NASA Associate Director for Exploration Systems Development, claims that the following launch window might occur between September 19 and October 4. The next opportunity will be October 17 through October 31 if NASA is unable to launch the rocket three times by then, he said.
NASA communications specialist Rachel Kraft wrote on the space agency's Artemis blog that teams would "establish access to the area of the leak at Launch Pad 39B over the next several days, and in parallel conduct a schedule assessment to provide additional data that will inform a decision on whether to perform work to replace a seal either at the pad, where it can be tested under cryogenic conditions, or inside the Vehicle Assembly Building."
On August 29, NASA put a stop to the first Artemis I SLS-Orion launch attempt from Florida's Kennedy Space Center while engineers investigated why a bleed test to bring the RS-25 engines on the bottom of the core stage to the correct temperature had failed.
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