Seems there is very little good fortune around for NASA's aging space shuttles these days. Through latest flights to the Hubble Space Telescope and the International Space Station (ISS) beset by problems, an Atlantis mission has been scheduled for November is belated in favour of a test launch of the Ares rocket that will quickly replace the shuttle fleet.
Initially it is expected to blast off towards the orbiting ISS on 12th of November and the Atlantis space shuttle's departure has now been shunted to 16th of November in order to make available a little more calendar-based margin for error for the launch of NASA's experimental Ares 1-X rocket.
NASA’s decision to expand the viable flight window of its October 27 test flight could possible is a consequence of problematic delays suffered by the last two shuttle launches, both of which were repetitively grounded due to technical malfunctions as well as inclement weather conditions around the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Pencilled in to complete a slow move at a snail's pace to its Florida launch pad on Tuesday, 20th October, the Ares 1-X will eventually take to the skies filled with sensors along with dummy components (include mock-up of the Orion crew capsule) as an unmanned test that NASA will use to collect data on various flight characteristics.
Set to get there as the first most important new spacecraft produced by NASA in almost 30 years, the Ares rocket has received around $445 million USD in funding and is an essential part of NASA’s Constellation program, which aims to replace the space shuttle fleet and it is also used to carry the U.S. space program into the future.
Initially it is expected to blast off towards the orbiting ISS on 12th of November and the Atlantis space shuttle's departure has now been shunted to 16th of November in order to make available a little more calendar-based margin for error for the launch of NASA's experimental Ares 1-X rocket.
NASA’s decision to expand the viable flight window of its October 27 test flight could possible is a consequence of problematic delays suffered by the last two shuttle launches, both of which were repetitively grounded due to technical malfunctions as well as inclement weather conditions around the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Pencilled in to complete a slow move at a snail's pace to its Florida launch pad on Tuesday, 20th October, the Ares 1-X will eventually take to the skies filled with sensors along with dummy components (include mock-up of the Orion crew capsule) as an unmanned test that NASA will use to collect data on various flight characteristics.
Set to get there as the first most important new spacecraft produced by NASA in almost 30 years, the Ares rocket has received around $445 million USD in funding and is an essential part of NASA’s Constellation program, which aims to replace the space shuttle fleet and it is also used to carry the U.S. space program into the future.
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