NASA hopes fuel leaks are fixed as it launches another countdown test

NASA has begun different signifier motorboat countdown for its archetypal moonshot successful decades with astronauts

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- NASA began different signifier motorboat countdown Tuesday for its archetypal moonshot successful decades with astronauts aft making repairs to hole unsafe substance leaks that already person bumped the formation into March.

The archetypal fueling trial was halted 2 weeks agone by the aforesaid benignant of liquid hydrogen leaks that disrupted the Artemis program's archetypal formation without anyone aboard 3 years ago.

Launch teams replaced a brace of seals and a clogged filter astatine the Kennedy Space Center pad wherever the elephantine satellite rocket stands earlier starting the countdown clocks backmost up. The two-day trial volition culminate Thursday with the attempted fill-up of the rocket’s substance tanks. The 4 Artemis II astronauts volition show the important formal rehearsal from afar.

A successful, leak-free trial is needed earlier NASA volition acceptable a motorboat date. The earliest the Space Launch System, oregon SLS, rocket could blast disconnected is March 6. Officials had considered moving it up by 3 days, but said the other clip was needed to analyse the fueling trial results.

The past clip astronauts blasted disconnected for the satellite was successful 1972 during NASA's Apollo program.

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