© Kevin Dietsch/AFP Author: Portugal/TSF The US space agency (NASA) will try to launch the new SLS lunar rocket for the second time this Saturday, after the takeoff was canceled on Monday due to technical problems. The launch will take place from NASA’s base in Cape Canaveral, Florida, with a two-hour “window of opportunity” opening […]
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Artemis I mission. NASA announces the launch of a new lunar rocket on Saturday
© Joe Raedle/AFP Author: Lusa The US space agency (NASA) announced on Tuesday that it will try to launch the new SLS lunar rocket on Saturday, after a first failed attempt on Monday due to a technical problem. “We have agreed to move our launch date to Saturday, September 3,” said mission manager Mike Sarafin, […]
The SLS rocket of the Artemis I mission has “technology from the 70s and 80s”
Astronomer Miguel Gonçalves believes that NASA’s decision to cancel the launch was the right one © Cristobal Herrera-Ulashkevich/EPA Author: Ruben de Matos with Catia Carmo The astronomer and science communicator Miguel Gonçalves recalls, in TSFthat even though the launch of the Artemis lunar rocket was a huge technological investment, some of the technology used is […]