NASA delays Artemis II launch
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A NASA document showing the potential launch windows for its Artemis II moon mission appears to have been quietly updated on Tuesday, with the agency highlighting March 6 to 9 and March 11 as possible target dates.
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BECKLEY, WV (WVNS) – The Artemis II launch date is pushed back to March, as of earlier this week. After complications during their ‘wet dress rehearsal’, engineers and NASA scientists are working to create repairs and solutions to get their project up in the skies.
NASA has pushed back the February launch of Artemis 2 to March after ending a critical fuel test early Tuesday morning, which was complicated by a liquid hydrogen leak and cold temperatures due to the rare Arctic outbreak that has gripped Florida.
Before NASA can decide a rocket launch date for Artemis 2, the giant SLS rocket has to ace a critical fueling test known as a wet dress rehearsal.
Artemis II is preparing for launch from the Kennedy Space Center, where the rocket will carry the Orion spacecraft for a second time, this time with a crew on its journey to the moon.
With the wet dress rehearsal, essentially a critical fueling test of the Artemis 2 Space Launch System moon rocket, now back on Feb. 2, NASA said in a statement that it can no longer target Feb. 6 or Feb. 7, the first two days of its launch window. The Artemis 2 launch window originally ran from Feb. 6 to Feb. 10.