The scrubbed liftoff comes days after the Russian space agency sent a rescue spacecraft to the station to replace a damaged one.
SpaceX was forced to delay the launch of its sixth full contingent of astronauts to the International Space Station early Monday, as it hoped to continue an unparalleled launch cadence of its Falcon 9 rocket. The launch was scrubbed within three minutes of the 1:45 a.m. scheduled liftoff timeNASA and SpaceX said they would try to launch again Thursday at 12:34 a.m. The space agency was looking to try to attempt the flight on Tuesday but said the weather conditions would not permit it.
The rescheduled launch comes as NASA and Russia continue to investigate what caused two Russian spacecraft — one designed for human spaceflight, the other for cargo only — to spring oddly similar coolant leaks within a couple of months of each other while attached to the space station. Russia launched a replacement capsule to the station on Thursday that is to retrieve a pair of Russian cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut. That capsule docked Saturday evening.
While SpaceX has continued to provide a reliable service of crew and cargo to the station, Boeing has struggled to get off the ground. But Boeing hopes it will finally launch its first crew in a test flight to the station as early as April. That would give NASA two providers, and a backup in case of company falters — a point driven home recently by the Russian spacecraft leaks.
She added that Russian officials at Roscosmos, the Russian space agency, “are sharing the information with us.” Roscosmos also did another set of inspections of the rescue spacecraft launched last week to retrieve NASA astronaut Frank Rubio as well as Russian cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin. “They inspected it,” she said. “They looked at the radiators, the solar arrays, and they couldn’t find anything at all anomalous. But that doesn’t mean they’re done investigating.
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