When and at what time will the Atlas V rocket launch to the International Space Station?
Rocket Atlas Vwith the ship Starliner at its peak, returned this Thursday to the platform from which the first manned space mission will take place Boeinglaunching which to the side International Space Station (EEI) is scheduled for next Saturday.
Shortly after 10:00 a.m. this Friday, the rocket and craft left the hangar to begin the slow transition onto a large mobile platform to the spacecraft launch complex. Cape Canaveral Space Force Stationin Florida, where the CFT (Crew Flight Test) mission takes off.
A photo provided by United Launch Alliance (ULA) shows a Boeing Starliner detail on top of an Atlas V rocket at the Vertical Integration Center.
“Butch and Suni, your rocket is on the launch pad!” United Launch Alliance (ULA), the manufacturer of the Atlas V launch vehicle, said less than an hour later in a social media post by the mission’s crew. astronauts POT Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita Williams.
When and at what time will the Atlas V rocket take off?
Boeing’s first manned space mission is scheduled to take off at 12:25 p.m. ET. USA next Saturday.
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If this is not achieved on that day, NASA, Boeing and ULA They are considering June 2, 5 and 6 as alternative dates, possibly during daylight hours.
The move to a capsule-rocket platform follows approval received during final pre-launch checks on Wednesday.
On the eve of the astronauts Wilmore And Williams They returned to the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral and have been in quarantine until Saturday’s launch, according to crew protocol.
A photo provided by United Launch Alliance (ULA) shows an Atlas V rocket carrying a Boeing Starliner at the Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) this Thursday at Cape Canaveral.
Why was the previous takeoff attempt suspended?
On May 6, Starliner was preparing to ascend to the ISS. Wilmore And Williams on board from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, but about two hours before launch, the operation was suspended after an anomaly was discovered in the Atlas V’s liquid oxygen tank.
The company removed the rocket and ship from the platform to replace a valve on the rocket’s oxygen tank, delaying the mission, which was delayed again when technicians discovered a helium leak in the ship’s service module. Starliner.
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According to POT Last week, the leak was caused by a defective seal on one of the ship’s 28 flanges.
The success of the mission will allow Boeing obtain the necessary certifications to operate as a second provider of cargo and crew transportation services to the ISS, as SpaceX already does after the million-dollar contracts both private firms signed with NASA.