The Artemis I rocket will not have its third launch attempt on Tuesday as planned due to concerns over Tropical Storm Ian making its way toward Cuba and Florida. 9News
on Tuesday as planned due to concerns over Tropical Storm Ian making its way toward Cuba and Florida.'s Artemis team decided to forgo the September 27 launch opportunity and is now preparing the mega moon rocket stack for rollback.
Launch System rocket and Orion spacecraft continue to sit on the launchpad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.The Artemis I rocket will not have its third launch attempt on Tuesday as planned due to concerns over a tropical storm Team members continue to monitor the weather as they make a decision about when to roll the rocket stack back into the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy. NASA will receive information from the US Space Force, the National Hurricane Center and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to inform their decision. Engineers have deferred their final decision about when to roll back as they gather additional data and analysis. Should the team decide to roll back the rocket inside the building, that process would begin late Sunday night or early Monday .The rocket stack can remain at the pad and withstand winds up to 137km/hr . If the stack needs to roll back into the building, it can handle sustained winds less than 74km/hr . "The agency is taking a step-wise approach to its decision making process to allow the agency to protect its employees by completing a safe roll in time for them to address the needs of their families while also protecting for the option to press ahead with another launch opportunity in the current window if weather predictions improve," according to a NASA release.Concerns over the weather system forming in the Caribbean put the weather conditions at only 20 per cent favorable for a launch, according to a forecast released by the US Space Force on Friday. Constraints on the launch require that the Artemis I mission does not fly through any precipitation. The launch constraints are designed to avoid natural and rocket-triggered lightning strikes to in-flight rockets, which could cause damage to the rocket and endanger public safety, according to the Space Force. Rocket-triggered lightning forms when a large rocket flies through a strong enough atmospheric electric field, so a cloud that is not producing natural lightning could still cause rocket-triggered lightning, according to the Space Force.
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