NASA officials said it could take several weeks to fix problems with the fuel system of the Artemis launch vehicle, due to which its launch on September 3 was canceled.. It is likely that the rocket will even be removed from the launch pad, Space reports.. com.

A liquid hydrogen leak was spotted on Saturday morning as NASA was trying to fuel its giant Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, which was supposed to send the spacecraft on a journey to orbit the moon.. Despite three separate attempts to fix the leak, the engineers were unsuccessful and eventually decided to stop to assess the situation..

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Based on this, and also taking into account the upcoming repairs, the rocket of the Artemis mission will stay on the ground for at least another two weeks. According to Jim Free, NASA Associate Administrator for Exploration Systems Engineering, the launch will not take place in the nearest window, which closes on September 6..

Now Artemis will have to wait until the next window, which opens on September 16 and will be open until October 4. However, there is a possibility that the launch will be made even later in October, in the period from the 17th to the 31st..

The first attempt to launch " Then it was canceled because the mission team noticed that one of the RS-25 engines installed in the first stage of the SLS was not cooled properly.. The analysis showed that the problem lies in the temperature sensor, so the launch was decided to be postponed to September 3.

At the same time, the mission team successfully managed to eliminate the hydrogen leak, but the one that was recorded on September 3 was different and stronger. According to Artemis mission manager Mark Sarafin, " He added that due to the leak, the level of flammable hydrogen gas near the rocket was several times higher than the permissible values..

The Artemis-1 mission involves the first flight of both the rocket and the Orion lunar capsule, built under NASA contracts with Boeing and Lockheed Martin Corp..

The mission is named after the goddess who was the twin sister of Apollo (the name of the first American lunar mission). It is assumed that "

The mission is planned for 2025, although many experts believe the timeline is likely to shift.