NASA Moon Mission: NASA will launch Artemis moon rocket on this day, know what is the new date

NASA Moon Mission NASA has said that it will make another attempt to launch the Artemis moon rocket. Now Artemis rocket will be launched on Saturday. Earlier on Monday, the launch had to be postponed due to engine problem.

NASA Moon Mission: NASA will launch Artemis moon rocket on this day, know what is the new date
NASA Moon Mission, image source: Times of India

Washington Agency:  NASA will make another attempt to launch the Artemis Moon Rocket on Saturday. The space agency's Artemis Mission Manager Mike Sarafin gave this information. "We also agreed to move our launch date to Saturday, September 3," he said on Tuesday. 

On Monday, NASA called off a planned test flight of the Artemis rocket around the Moon after several setbacks, including engine problems, a hydrogen leak and stormy weather, off the coast of Florida. "Artemis I launch is not taking place today as teams work on engine bleed problem," NASA said in a tweet. Teams will continue to collect data. We will keep you informed about the timing of the next launch attempt. 

NASA postponed the launch on Monday NASA had on Monday planned to launch the Artemis I mission from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, which will take the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket and Orion capsule around the Moon for a month. Was sending on a trip over. NASA said the launch is on an unplanned hold.

The US space agency said "The launch is currently on an unplanned hold as the team is working on a problem with Engine No. 3 on the core stage,"

Artemis rocket is in safe condition

Teams are evaluating why the bleed test to condition the engine was not successful. Engineers are looking at options for collecting more and more data. The Artemis rocket and spacecraft are in a stable, safe condition. While liquid oxygen continues to be loaded into the interim cryogenic propulsion stage and the core stage tanks are being refilled with propellant. Engineers troubleshoot a conditioning problem with one of the RS-25 engines (Engine 3) at the bottom of the core stage. 

NASA Senior Communications Specialist Rachel Kraft said the launch controllers position the engines by increasing pressure on the core stage tanks to induce some cryogenic propellant to start the engines to get them to the proper temperature range. Engine 3 is not being properly conditioned through the bleed process, and engineers are trouble shooting. 

The teams are also assessing what appears to be a crack in the thermal protection system material on one of the flanges at the core stage. Rachel said that flange connection joints, which act like a seam on the shirt, are affixed to the top and bottom of the inter tank to connect the two tanks to it.

NASA's first mission in the Artemis lunar program

It is NASA's first mission in the Artemis lunar program, which is expected to land the agency's astronauts on the Moon by its third mission in 2025. NASA plans to fly Orion 60 miles above the surface of the Moon, before going into an extended orbit around the lunar body. In return, Orion will use the Moon's gravity to help establish a trajectory back into Earth's orbit. 

Orion is expected to fall into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of San Diego, California, where a team of NASA and Defense Department personnel will recover the capsule.