Orlando Sentinel By Richard Tribou, Roger Simmons and Joe Mario Pedersen 9/3/2022
NASA lined up a second shot to send its massive Space Launch System rocket with the Orion spacecraft on a mission to the moon. Saturday’s attempt, though, fell victim once again to issues during tanking and just like Monday’s attempt ended up being scrubbed.
At an afternoon press conference, the mission management team announced they would be skipping the Monday launch opportunity, and will have to roll it back to the Vehicle Assembly Building.
NASA’s Jim Free, associate administrator for the Exploration Systems Development Mission Directorate said no attempt will be made to launch Artemis I on Monday, and will have to roll back to the Vehicle Assembly Building because of limits on battery checks of its flight termination system, based on a 25-day limit in place with Space Launch Delta 45. That check would have to be done at the VAB.
“We will not be launching in this launch period,” he said.
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