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SpaceX’s Super Heavy Booster 7 recently completed a 7 engine static fire test at Starbase.Photo: SpaceXSpaceX is moving ahead with plans to upgrade a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, which will serve as a backup to the Kennedy Space Center pad the company currently uses to launch cargo and crewsto space. During a press briefing last week, Bill Gerstenmaier, SpaceX’s vice president for build and flight reliability, said that the company is preparing for the upgrades needed for Space Launch Complex 40…

The SLS rocket (far right) arriving at the Vehicle Assembly Building on the morning of Tuesday, September 27.Photo: NASAAt first it was technical hurdles, but now a natural disaster has forced a delay to NASA’s Artemis 1 mission. With the rocket tucked inside the space agency’s gigantic assembly building and with normal ground operations set to resume this week, Space Launch Systemwon’t take flight until November 12 at the earliest. Hurricane Ian laid waste to much of Florida last week, resulting in the loss of life,…

NASA’s SLS rocket at Launch Pad 39B at Kennedy Space Center.Photo: NASAWith Hurricane Ian threatening the Florida peninsula, NASA has opted to transport its 321-foot-tall Space Launch System to the Vehicle Assembly Building where the Artemis rocket and Orion spacecraft will be safe from potentially damaging winds. On Saturday, NASA scrapped its plans to perform the third launch attempt of its SLS rocket due to a tropical storm brewing in the Caribbean. Today, the space agency announced that it would transport the SLS…

SLS at the Kennedy Space Center launch pad. Image: NASAIan, the ninth named tropical storm of the current Atlantic hurricane season, has foiled NASA’s plan to launch the Artemis 1 mission on Tuesday September 27. As late as Friday afternoon, NASA officials were casually dismissing the Caribbean storm system, but the space agency has since smartly concluded that Tropical Ian, as the system is now called, is something to be concerned about. In a blog post published this morning, NASA said it’s “foregoing a launch…

SLS at the launch pad in Florida. Photo: NASAWe’ve got some good news and some bad news. Space Force has granted NASA’s request for an extension to launch the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket—yay—but a tropical storm is brewing in the Atlantic, which could threaten its scheduled launch on Tuesday, September 27.NASA finally got the Space Force waiver it was seeking, as John Blevins, SLS chief engineer, told reporters earlier this afternoon. The space agency can now proceed with a launch on either September 27 or October 2.…

SLS on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo: NASALike a student late to submit an assignment, NASA has requested an extension from the Space Force that would allow the space agency to perform a third launch attempt of its mega Moon rocket later this month.NASA’s Space Launch System rocket is currently undergoing repairs following a hydrogen leak that resulted in a second failed launch attempt this past Saturday. Theagency is eager to proceed with a third launch attempt in late September and has filed…

SLS on the launch pad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo: NASANASA is preparing to replace a faulty seal linked to a hydrogen leak that resulted in the second scrubbed launch attempt of SLS on Saturday. The repairs will happen at the launch pad, which is ideal from a testing perspective, but NASA still needs to cart the jumbo rocket back to the assembly building to meet safety requirements. Technicians will replace a seal on the quick disconnect, an interface that joins the liquid hydrogen fuel line on the mobile…

SLS on the launchpad at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Photo: NASAA serious and unmanageable hydrogen leak prevented NASA from launching its SLS rocket on Saturday. Teams continue to evaluate the reason for the second failed launch attempt, but NASA says the rocket will have to return to the Vehicle Assembly Building to undergo safety checks.For rocket scientists, hydrogen is an important propellant, but it’s also a serious pain in the ass. It’s the tiniest molecule in the universe, and as such, it has a propensity to…

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The Saturn V moon rocket launched in 1967 as part of the Apollo 4 mission.Photo: NASAOn November 9, 1967, a 363-foot-tall (111-meter) Saturn V rocket launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, generating 7.5 million pounds of thrust. The blast created by the Apollo 4 liftoff was among theloudest noises ever produced by our species, scientists calculated at the time. In fact, the roar was so loud that it sparked a rumor that the Saturn V launch melted concrete and lit grass on fire over a mile away.A team of scientists…