The launch of a Delta Heavy rocket scheduled for Thursday morning from Cape Canaveral Air Foce Station has been postponed due to a pneumatics issue.
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Photo by Joe Marino/UPI | Hans Koenigsmann, vice president for build and flight reliability at SpaceX, looks at a monitor showing a live feed of the rocket carrying the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft on the pad during the countdown on May 27. Photo courtesy of SpaceX | Hurley (L) and Behnken stand near Launch Pad 39A during a dress rehearsal ahead of the SpaceX uncrewed In-Flight Abort Test at Kennedy Space Center on January 17. Photo by Joel Kowsky/NASA | This is a view of the crew access arm in position with the Crew Dragon spacecraft and the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on May 24. The private space company has another launch lined up for NRO sometime in September but that will be with Altas V, ULA’s workhorse rocket.Last October, the heavy-lift rocket launched NASA’s Parker Solar Probe from Cape Canaveral on a mission to study the sun.Ahead of the launch, ULA did something unusual with the rocket. Photo courtesy of SpaceX | From left to right, Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana, second lady Karen Pence, Vice President Mike Pence, first lady Melania Trump, President Donald Trump, Marillyn Hewson, CEO of Lockheed Martin, Mike Hawes, vice president of human space exploration and Orion program manager at Lockheed Martin Space, and NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine stop by the Artemis I capsule during a tour of the Armstrong operations building. Previously, Emilee was a space writer and web editor for the Orlando Sentinel and a producer at the Naples Daily News. Photo courtesy of SpaceX | The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft undergoes final processing at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. Photo courtesy of NASA | The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at 3:22 p.m. May 30 with Hurley and Behnken aboard the first manned Crew Dragon spacecraft from Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on May 30. It was previously scheduled to launch on Wednesday morning but was pushed Thursday morning with the window opening just after 2 a.m.
Photo by Kim Shiflett/NASA | The test, which did not have NASA astronauts aboard, demonstrated Crew Dragon's ability to reliably carry crew to safety in the unlikely event of an emergency on ascent. It used the rocket and launch hangar as a backdrop to project an interactive video, known as 3D mapping.The project took three years to complete because it’s a rocket with a national security payload on a base with restricted access. Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA | Hurley is helped out of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship after he and NASA astronaut Robert Behnken landed in the Gulf of Mexico.
Photo courtesy of SpaceX | SpaceX teams executed a full simulation of launch and docking of the Crew Dragon spacecraft, with Hurley (R) and Behnken participating in SpaceX's flight simulator on March 19 and 20. Photo courtesy of SpaceX | A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket boosts the Crew Dragon spacecraft for NASA on a launch abort test from Complex 39A at Kennedy on January 19. Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA | From left to right, SpaceX owner and chief engineer Elon Musk, Bridenstine, Mike Pence and Karen Pence applaud the astronauts as they head to the spacecraft. Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA | Hurley (L) and Behnken give their families virtual hugs as they prepare for the Demo-2 mission launch.
On the back row, from left to right are Roscosmos flight engineer Anatoly Ivanishin, NASA Commander Chris Cassidy and Roscosmos engineer Ivan Vagner. Photo by Kim Shiflett/NASA | Hurley and Behnken return to the Armstrong building from Launch Complex 39A after completing the dress rehearsal.
The idea came from ULA CEO Tory Bruno.If ULA’s launch goes on time, it will be the first of three possible launches Copyright 2020 by WKMG ClickOrlando - All rights reserved.Emilee is a digital journalist for News 6 and ClickOrlando.com, where she writes about space and Central Florida news.
The time to do this took us past the launch window,” Bruno said in a tweet.The launch was scrubbed due to an issue with a critical ground pneumatics control system, according to ULA.ULA said the team needs additional time to evaluate and solve the issue.Crews said the launch is now planned for 2:08 a.m. on Friday and the forecast shows an 80% chance of favorable weather conditions for the launch.ULA Launch Director Loui Mangieri announced crews will not continue with the launch of the Delta IV Heavy rocket for Thursday. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI | A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket stand on Launch Complex 39A on May 29. Photo by Kim Shiflett/NASA | Hurley (R) and Behnken don SpaceX spacesuits in the astronaut crew quarters during a dress rehearsal. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI | NASA astronaut Douglas Hurley (C) waves to onlookers as he boards a plane at Naval Air Station Pensacola to return him and NASA astronaut Robert Behnken home to Houston a few hours after the duo landed in their SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft off the coast of Pensacola, Fla,, on August 2, 2020.
Photo courtesy of SpaceX | Hurley (R) and Behnken participate in SpaceX's flight simulator. NASA Photo by Bill Ingalls/UPI | NASA and SpaceX managers participate in a flight readiness review for the upcoming Demo-2 launch in the Operations Support Building II at Kennedy Space Center on May 21. Photo courtesy of SpaceX | Hurley examines the critical flight hardware during the test on March 30. The rocket's three engines briefly ignited, but computers automatically aborted the mission.