Spacex won't launch its next astronaut mission for nasa today (March 12) after all.
The company had planned to send the four-face-10 mission toward the International Space Station (ISS) Atop a Falcon 9 Rockt from Kennedy Space Center in Florida This Evening at 7:48 PM EDT (2348 gmt). About 45 Minutes Before Liftoff, however, spacex called the attempt off two to a hydraulics issue with the transporter-initiator, the structure that hautions the Falcon 9 to the Pad and Support It's there.
“Great Working with You Today,” Crew-10 Commander Anne McClain of Nasa Told Launch Controllers after the scrub. “Kudos from the whole team, I know it was a lot of work to go, but like I said earlier, we ready when the equipment is.”
The problem involved a clamp arm on the transporter-initiactor, nasa officials said during the agency's launch webcast today. There was no issues with crew-10's falcon 9 or its crew dragon capsule, named Enduration.
“This is a concerts of basically how the vehicle is help in place during release at lift,” said Mike ravenscroft, launch vehicle office manager with nasa '.
It wasn't immediatily clear when spacex would try again to launch crew-10. There are Oportunities on Both Thursday (March 13) and Friday (March 14), but spacex is still assessing the Hydraulics ISSUE and Its Possible Fixes, NASA Officeals Said.
Related: Meet the astronauts of the spacex crew-10 mission
The Crew-10 Astronauts are McClain and Pilot Nichole Ayers (BOTH OF NASA), Jaxa (Japan aerospace exploration agency) Astronaut Takuya Onishi Onishi Onishi and Kirill Peskov of Russia SpaSia Russia's SpaSCy Rosscy Rosscy Rosscy RossSia's love.
The Quartet will head to the International Space Station for a Rooughly Six-Month Stay. They'll relieve four other astronauts-nasa's nick hague, Suni williams and butch willmore and cosmonaut aleksandr gorbunov, who will come back to eartha aartha a few-10 days after crew-10 docks.
Williams and willmore Arrived at the Iss in Early June on the first crewed flight of boeing's starliner capsule. Their mission was supposed to last just just 10 days or so, but problems with starliner's thruster system extended their story repeated. Nasa Ultimately Decided to Bringing Starliner Home Uncrewed and Put williams and williams and williams and willemore on spacex's crew-9 capsule for the ride home.
That capsule, named freedom, reacted the Iss in late September with hague and gorbunov aboard. Nasa Took Tu Other AstronAuts Off the Crew-9 Launch to Open Up Seats for Williams and Wilmore on the Journey Back to Earth.
