Après deux reports fin juillet et début août, Boeing vient d'annoncer que le lancement de Starliner était mis en pause. La capsule va être détachée de la fusée Atlas V qui devait la lancer, afin de subir une batterie de tests approfondis.
Starliner takes off back to the factory and not space
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Artemis 1 SLS stacking work running long, preps for integrated tests continue in parallel
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Image: NASA/Cory Huston
NASA has reached an important milestone, as the 188,000-pound core stage of its latest rocket is now standing vertically inside an assembly building in Florida.
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With sights firmly on a crewed Moon landing, NASA is gearing up for Artemis I. For this upcoming three-week mission, an Orion spacecraft will travel 280,000 miles (450,000 km) to the Moon and back, in what will be a critically important test of the agency’s upcoming megarocket: the Space Launch System, or SLS.
The core stage being lowered onto the mobile launcher, with the twin booster rockets at each side.
Image: NASA/Cory Huston