September 3, 2022 20:23
Today, Saturday, for the second time in five days, the US Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) stopped the countdown and postponed a planned attempt to launch a new-generation giant rocket in the first mission of its “Artemis” program, which is scheduled to include flights from the moon to Mars.
The cancellation of the latest attempt to launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which is about the length of a 32-storey building, with the Orion capsule from Cape Canaveral, Florida, came after repeated attempts by technicians to repair a leaking supercooled liquid hydrogen fuel being pumped into the fuel stage tanks. basic vehicle.
The orange and white rocket is located on Platform 39B at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the largest in the world.
The unmanned Artemis 1 mission is to launch the Orion capsule into orbit around the moon to verify that the craft is safe for future astronauts.
Thanks to this new capsule, the US Space Agency intends to resume distant human explorations in the universe, as the moon is a thousand times farther from Earth than the International Space Station.
But above all, through this program, NASA aims to establish a permanent human presence on the Moon, before adopting a starting point for a mission to Mars.
It is expected that 400,000 people attended the launch of the missile during the weekend in the United States, who relied on the surrounding beaches to settle on it.
The “Artemis 1” mission also seeks to test the capsule’s heat shield as it returns to the Earth’s atmosphere, at a speed of approximately 40,000 kilometers per hour and a temperature equivalent to half the temperature of the sun’s surface.
– A manned mission in 2025
The complete success of the “Artemis” mission will be a relief to NASA. The amount that the agency has invested in the program to return to the moon by the end of 2025 will exceed $90 billion.
The name “Artemis” was inspired by the twin sister of the god “Apollon” in ancient Greek mythology, in resemblance to the names of the “Apollo” program that sent astronauts to the moon between 1969 and 1972.
Source: agencies
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