Why do we always need to wait for 'launch windows' to get a rocket to space?
- Written by: Gail Iles, Senior Lecturer in Physics, RMIT University
NASAEarlier this week, the Artemis I Moon mission was scrubbed again; now we have to wait for a new launch window.
Just 40 minutes before the Space Launch System rocket was set to take off from Kennedy Space Centre in Florida on September 3, a leaking fuel line caused engineers to scrub the launch.
So what is a launch window, and why can’t a...
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