NASA will try again to launch the Artemis I mission this Saturday – Diario de Navarra

The launch of NASA’s Artemis I unmanned space mission, made up of the Orion spacecraft and the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, is scheduled for this Saturday, September 3, after will not take place on Monday, August 29 due to engine problems. This was communicated by NASA through its Twitter profile, where it detailed that the takeoff window of the ship that will travel to the Moon will start at 2:17 p.m. (local time, 8:17 p.m. Spanish peninsular time). Once the failure was resolved, the director of the Artemis mission, Mike Sarafin, announced that the Artemis I continues on platform 39B of the Kennedy Space Center, from where it will go into space on September 3. The Artemis I mission is intended to be the first step, still without a crew, for successive missions with the ultimate goal of returning astronauts to the surface of the Moon and enabling a long-term human presence for decades to come. The primary goals of Artemis I are to demonstrate Orion’s systems in a spaceflight environment and to ensure safe re-entry, descent, splashdown, and recovery prior to the first crewed flight on Artemis II, NASA said at a briefing Tuesday. August. The duration of the mission is set at between four and six weeks, with a journey of 2.1 million kilometers, with several orbits of the Earth and the Moon on its journey.