According to WFTV, the new two-hour launch window opens at 2:17 p.m. EDT Saturday, five days after complications forced NASA to scrub the initial launch attempt Monday morning.
In a blog post Tuesday night, the agency said officials “met Tuesday to discuss data and develop a forward plan to address issues that arose” during the previous attempt.
“During that launch attempt, teams were not able to chill down the four RS-25 engines to approximately minus 420 degrees F, with engine 3 showing higher temperatures than the other engines,” the post read. “Teams also saw a hydrogen leak on a component of the tail service mast umbilical quick disconnect, called the purge can, and managed the leak by manually adjusting propellant flow rates.”
Teams have reviewed the data from Monday's launch attempt of the #Artemis I mission and are moving forward with a second launch attempt on Sat., Sept. 3, with a two-hour launch window starting at 2:17 p.m. EDT (18:17 UTC). pic.twitter.com/oDr5plGhqS
If Saturday’s attempt is successful, the agency’s most powerful rocket, dubbed Space Launch System, will send an unmanned Orion capsule carrying three test dummies on a six-week test flight around the moon, according to the AP. The craft’s 42-day, 1.3 million-mile journey should end in an October splashdown near Baja, California, WFTV previously reported.
NASA crews will meet again Thursday to review readiness and other data ahead of the planned launch, according to WFTV.
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Photos: NASA's Artemis I moon rocket on track for Monday launch In this handout image provided by NASA, NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on August 28, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images)
Photos: NASA's Artemis I moon rocket on track for Monday launch In this handout image provided by NASA, NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on August 28, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)
Photos: NASA's Artemis I moon rocket on track for Monday launch In this handout image provided by NASA, NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on August 28, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)
Photos: NASA's Artemis I moon rocket on track for Monday launch In this handout image provided by NASA, NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on August 28, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)
Photos: NASA's Artemis I moon rocket on track for Monday launch The Artemis I rocket sits on launch pad 39-B at Kennedy Space Center as it is prepared for launch of an unmanned flight around the moon on August 28, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Photos: NASA's Artemis I moon rocket on track for Monday launch In this handout image provided by NASA, NASA's Space Launch System (SLS) rocket with the Orion spacecraft aboard is seen atop a mobile launcher at Launch Pad 39B as preparations for launch continue at NASA's Kennedy Space Center on August 28, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images)
Photos: NASA's Artemis I moon rocket on track for Monday launch Spacecraft Technicians Matt Lauer (left) and Robert Ware work on the Orion crew capsule for the Artemis 2 mission at the Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center on August 28, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Photos: NASA's Artemis I moon rocket on track for Monday launch The Service Module component of the Orion spacecraft for the Artemis 2 mission is shown as it is prepared for a future mission at the Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center on August 28, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Photos: NASA's Artemis I moon rocket on track for Monday launch Part of the Orion crew capsule for the Artemis 3 mission is shown as it is prepared for a future mission at the Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center on August 28, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Photos: NASA's Artemis I moon rocket on track for Monday launch Spacecraft Technicians Steve Grasso (left) and Matt Lauer work on the Orion crew capsule for the Artemis 2 mission at the Operations and Checkout Building at Kennedy Space Center on August 28, 2022, in Cape Canaveral, Florida. (Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
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