By Jonathan Amos BBC Science Correspondent, Cape Canaveral Image source, NASA The UnitedStates area company states it will attempt to launch its brand-new Moon rocket on Saturday. An effort at a lift-off on Monday had to be scrubbed when one of 4 engines on the lorry would not cool down to its needed operating temperaturelevel. After evaluating information, engineers think they now comprehend why the problem happened. They believe it is mostlikely associated to an incorrect sensingunit reading and that they can establish a method to offer with the issue on launch day. This includes beginning the procedure of cooling the engines earlier in the countdown. “We’ve got a course forward to get to where we requirement to get to, to assistance the next launch,” stated John Honeycutt, who handles the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket task at Nasa. Saturday’s launch will be timed for 14: 17 regional time (18: 17 GMT; 19: 17 BST) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Controllers will be offered 2 hours to get the rocket off Earth. Image source, NASA Image caption, The SLS has 4 shuttle-era RS-25 engines at the base of its core phase SLS is the greatest launch car ever established by the UnitedStates area firm. It’s the contemporary comparable of the Saturn V rockets that sentout people to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s – however with substantially more thrust off the launch pad. SLS will sendout a huge brand-new team pill called Orion on a series of objectives to the Moon under Nasa’s Artemis program. This fi
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