The rocket, 98 meters high, can withstand wind gusts of up to 137 km/h on its launch pad.
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It’s still grated for this time. The launch of NASA’s new mega-rocket to the Moon, for the long-awaited Artemis 1 test mission, will not take place on Tuesday, September 27, due to the formation of a storm, announced the American space agency. Saturday.
Under the threat of tropical storm Ian, currently south of Jamaica, NASA must prepare the rocket to return to shelter in its assembly building. The storm is expected to strengthen into a hurricane in the coming days and rise via the Gulf of Mexico towards Florida, where the Kennedy Space Center is located from where the rocket is to take off.
A shooting period until October 4
The orange and white rocket, 98 meters high, can withstand wind gusts of up to 137 km/h on its launch pad.
The final decision to retract the rocket will be made on Sunday, “to enable more data and analysis to be gathered” as weather forecasts become clearer, NASA said. The current firing period, which runs until October 4, would then be missed.
If it is finally decided that the rocket can remain on its launch pad, NASA did not specify whether the fallback date previously announced, October 2, could still be considered for takeoff.