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Bill Nelson, NASA's administrator, spoke about the decision to call off of the launch: “We are stressing and testing this rocket and the spacecraft in a way that you’d never do it with a human crew on board. That’s the purpose of a test flight.” He added that engineers will “work it, they’ll get to the bottom of it, they’ll get it fixed and then they’ll fly,” No decision was announced about when the next launch attempt may occur.
Lurer på om det er små forventninger til denne oppskytingen. På mandag hadde de som kjent et to timers vindu, og vi hadde filet rute, og fløy den, som gikk stort sett rett over. Det var ganske overskyet, så vi var overrasket at det ikke var det som stoppet den.
Days after NASA proposed to make its next attempt to launch the Artemis 1 mission on Sept. 23, the agency changed course and pushed back the launch.
At a Sept. 8 briefing, NASA said it was tentatively planning to fly the Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft as soon as Sept. 23, with Sept. 27 as a backup launch date. That scheduled depended on completing and testing repairs to seals in liquid hydrogen lines that attach to the rocket’s core stage, as well as getting approval from the Eastern Range to extend the certification of the flight termination system (FTS) on SLS.
multiple space reporters said on Twitterthat the agency had sent them a message telling them they were prohibited from photographing the Artemis 1 launch tower after the liftoff.
"NASA did not provide a reason," Eric Berger,Ars Technica's senior space editor, tweeted. The reporter added that according to his sources, the ban was apparently an attempt to save face after the launch damaged the tower.
Nasa associate administrator Jim Free was asked if it was realistic to think all this technology could be perfected by September 2026.
"We're setting a date for [Artemis III] that we have set with our contractors, based on the technical plans that they've laid out," he responded. "What I can tell you is we put margin in there to account for some of the risks that we anticipate seeing. We've tried to address the unknown unknowns and set a realistic plan in place."
WASHINGTON — Boeing has notified employees working on the Space Launch System program that up to 400 of them could lose their jobs as the new administration considers canceling the program.
Boeing SLS employees were informed Feb. 7 that the company was making preparations to cut up to 400 jobs from the program because of “revisions to the Artemis program and cost expectations.” The specific positions being considered for elimination were not announced but would account for a significant fraction of the overall SLS workforce at the company.
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