when is the launch of the Artemis mission postponed?

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After the new postponement of the Artemis mission, there is no fixed date for the launch of the mega-rocket to the Moon. The journalist Loic de La Mornais, special envoy to Cape Canaveral, Florida (United States), takes stock of the situation on Saturday 3 September.

The launch of the mega-rocket of the Artemis mission has been postponed again, Saturday September 3. “Nasa seems to have concluded that today’s problems were even bigger than what we saw on Monday”explains Loïc de La Mornais, special correspondent in Cape Canaveral, Florida (United States), live from 11 p.m. from franceinfo.

“This hydrogen leak was even larger than Monday, so there will be no launch on the next two launch windows that were scheduled for next Monday and Tuesday.”, continues the journalist. The launch could take place in October, “but even there, NASA seemed to put even more into perspective its remarks that it made a little earlier in the day”he says. “We feel that the engineers are facing serious problems and that they will have to work on them”says Loïc de La Mornais.

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