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Fuel leak ruins NASA’s second attempt at launching Moon rocket

NASA has ruled out another launch attempt in the coming days for its Artemis 1 moon mission. The US space agency had to postpone lift off of its giant rocket earlier on Saturday, after a fuel leak. It was the second time in a week that a technical issue has derailed the mission. NASA says the leak is too complex to fix in a matter…

Nasa 'hopes to launch' Artemis rocket to Moon within week – BBC News

Nasa chiefs have said they hope to launch its new Moon rocket, the Space Launch System, later this week. The Artemis 1 mission blast off was postponed at first after controllers struggled to get an engine on the 100m-tall vehicle cooled down to its correct operating temperature. It is the biggest rocket ever developed by Nasa and in time will be used to send astronauts…

Nasa postpones launch of Artemis 1 moon mission over rocket engine snag

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube The launch of Nasa’s much-anticipated moon mission Artemis 1 was called off 40 minutes before lift-off on August 29, 2022, after a technical snag described as a temperature issue with one of the spacecraft’s four engines. Space fans gathered near the Kennedy Space Center in the US state of Florida to watch the blast-off were left…

Nasa calls off new Artemis mission to Moon – BBC News

Nasa has called off the launch of its big new Moon rocket – the Space Launch System (SLS). Controllers struggled to get an engine on the 100m-tall vehicle cooled down to its correct operating temperature. They had previously worried about what appeared to be a crack high up on the rocket but eventually determined it was merely frost build-up. The SLS is the biggest rocket…

CAPSTONE Launch to the Moon (Official NASA Broadcast)

Watch the launch from New Zealand of CAPSTONE, a new pathfinder CubeSat that will explore a unique orbit around the Moon! The Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment, or CAPSTONE, will be the first spacecraft to fly a near rectilinear halo orbit (NRHO) around the Moon, where the pull of gravity from Earth and the Moon interact to allow for a nearly-stable…

China’s Chang’e 5 lunar lander finds water on the moon, but not as much as they hoped

Subscribe to our YouTube channel for free here: https://sc.mp/subscribe-youtube Soil samples collected by China’s Chang’e 5 lunar lander have determined that much of the water on the surface of the moon likely comes from within the moon itself, not solar winds as previously hypothesised. The discovery comes from the first-ever water survey conducted on the surface of the moon and is an important step in…

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