The Northrop Grumman Entrance rocket, which has a NASA supply of about tons for the International Space Station, was hit by a launch abortes just minutes before the liftoff late Thursday night (Oct. Oct.).
The rocket lift was less than three minutes away from Fatty while sitting on the pad 0 of NASA’s Wall Lops Pass flight facility on Wall Lops Island in Virginia. The launching target was set at 9:43 a.m. EDT (2 Oct Oct. 0143 GMT).
“We have a middle ground,” NASA spokesman Rob Navias said in a live mission commentary.
The countdown was running smoothly shortly before the lift before Fana, when flight controllers stopped the clock to allow boats entering the keep-out zone around the launchpad to clear the area. The pause delayed the launch time by five minutes, shifting from the 9.38pm EDT target to 9:43 pm. It was after resuming the count that at 2 minutes and 40 seconds before the liftoff, an abortion occurred.
Navsar said the abortion was caused by an “unknown problem” with a piece of ground support equipment, not an Entrance rocket or a Cygnus cargo ship aboard.
If Northrop Grumman can determine how quickly this can lead to an abortion, the company could test the Cygnus cargo ship for NASA as early as Friday night (October 2). The lift off will take place on the day at 9:00 AM EDT (0116 GMT).
If Friday’s effort really goes ahead you can watch the live broadcast here and on the space.com homepage, starting at 8:45 pm EDT (0100 GMT). You can also watch it directly from NASA TV.
Cygnus NG-14 cargo ship unloading at Antarctica weighs 7,624 kg. (3,458 kg) Food, supplies and experiment hardware for astronauts living on the International Space Station. The main route is a new space toilet, called the Universal Waste Management System.
As its name suggests, the Cygnus NG-14 Northrop is the 14th cargo mission to NASA by the Groomman Entrance / Cygnus duo. The company is one of the two (SpaceX is another) currently flying a crowded cargo mission to the space station for NASA under a multibillion-dollar leer agreement.
The Cygnus NG-14 spacecraft is named SS Kalpana Chawla in honor of astronaut Kalpana Chawla, who died along with six other astronauts in the 2003 Columbia space shuttle accident.
Last week at the launch abort on Thursday night, U.S. Marked the fifth delay of rocket launch and the third abortion in a 24-hour period. On September 24, Blue Origin’s Suburban New Shepard rocket encountered a power glitch during a launch attempt. Separate attempts to meet the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Delta IV heavy rocket and two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets were also met with delay.
Late Wednesday night (Sept. 0), the launch of a ULA Delta IV heavy rocket with a classified NROL-spy spy satellite stopped just seconds before a liftoff from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. On Thursday morning, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket had its own shutdown due to a ground sensor issue while trying to launch 60 Starlink Internet satellites from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center near the Air Force Station.
SpaceX has one more Falcon 9 rocket launch that will launch the GPS III SV04 navigation satellite to the U.S. on Friday night. The army plans to move forward in orbit. That mission, which has been delayed by weather and schedule, is now set to launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station at 9:43 p.m. – less than 30 minutes after Northrop Grumman’s NG-14 mission, if it moves forward on Friday. At night.
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