A helium leak has caused the launch of the ship to be postponed
The Polaris Dawn mission is not being carried out by NASA, but by the company SpaceX
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SpaceX has been forced in the last few hours to temporarily postpone the launch of the Falcon 9 spacecraft belonging to the Polaris Dawn space mission. The reason, according to reports from the company itself, is that a helium leak has caused problems that need repair. However, SpaceX is optimistic, and hopes that it can be repaired. resume launching the ship next Wednesday, August 28th.
A problem to solve
This is a common occurrence and it is natural for it to happen (it is no less dangerous for that), since there are countless elements in the launch of a spacecraft that, At the slightest mistake, they can cause a great disaster. This is why SpaceX has chosen to postpone the launch of the Falcon 9 until repair helium leak which occurred shortly before launch.
Through social networksSpaceX has detailed the nature of the problem, and also insisted that it is a minor issue that will cause only a slight delay on the Polaris Dawn space mission. Therefore, according to the expectations of Elon Musk’s company, the ship will once again prepare to carry out Its takeoff is next Wednesday, August 28th.at the latest.
In fact, if you want View the takeoff situation in real timeYou can find it in this YouTube live stream that monitors the Falcon 9 takeoff and its hypothetical countdown.
Polaris Dawn, expanding goals in space
The Polaris Dawn Programin which SpaceX openly participates, has the most interesting goals ahead that can influence the development of space technology to continue reaching further than ever since the Apollo program. The Apollo missions achieved to take humans to the moonsomething that Polaris Dawn will not yet come close to, whose plans are in the making a spacewalk 700 kilometers from Earthin the middle of the Earth’s exosphere.
For its part, NASA also shared a rather ambitious planning in terms of progress on its projects for 2024. And that is, with the Moon again in mindthe Agency’s objective is to revisit the satellite, in addition to collecting remains of ice from its south poleand many other future-oriented investigations that, at the beginning of the year, got off to a bad start.
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