The mega rocket and capsule must wait until engineers can resolve tricky hydrogen leaks.
answers your questions about what’s next for Artemis I.On NASA’s first try, on 29 August, lightning near the launch pad delayed work to fill the rocket’s fuel tanks. Then two hydrogen leaks appeared. Finally, a sensor indicated that one of the SLS’s four main engines was not chilled to the temperature necessary to receive fuel before lift-off. NASA halted the launch attempt — although it later found that the sensor was probably faulty and the engine was as cold as it needed to be.
Aerospace companies have experimented with other propellants. SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, uses methane for the engines that will power its planned deep-space rocket, Starship. Methane burns more cleanly and is cheaper than the fuels SpaceX has used previously, such as kerosene. But it does not provide as much specific impulse as hydrogen.For the moment, engineers are working to fix the hydrogen leaks while the SLS is still on the launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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