NASA reported the suspension of the launch of the Artemis I mission, which was expected to begin its journey to the Moon this Monday from Cape Canaveral, Florida (USA), however, some technical failures have forced the US space station to be canceled until further notice.
Through its website, NASA announced that the suspension was carried out after the SLS rocket with the Orion capsule on top had held on pad 40B at the Kennedy Space Center after lift-off was delayed in the early hours of the morning, as scheduled.
Likewise, the US agency indicated that the launch controllers will continue to evaluate the faults in one of the four RS- engines , which has been the cause of the suspension.
“Launch controllers were continuing to evaluate why a bleed test for RS-25 at the bottom of the core stage reached the proper temperature range for liftoff was unsuccessful and ran out of time in the two-hour launch window”, reads the statement.
According to the statement, the main cause of the failure would have to do with the temperature that the engine must have at the time of takeoff, after the loading of liquid hydrogen.
NASA had long announced that, in the event that this historic mission did not take off today, the second and third tentative dates would be on the 2nd and 5th September, however so far they have not confirmed this information.