{"id":1486196,"date":"2024-08-27T10:55:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T14:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1486196"},"modified":"2024-08-27T10:55:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-27T14:55:00","slug":"spacex-delays-historic-polaris-dawn-mission-over-ground-side-helium-leak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/spacex-delays-historic-polaris-dawn-mission-over-ground-side-helium-leak\/1486196\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Delays Historic ‘Polaris Dawn’ Mission Over “Ground-Side Helium Leak”\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX Delays Historic ‘Polaris Dawn’ Mission Over “Ground-Side Helium Leak”\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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SpaceX scrubbed a rocket launch this morning that would carry four\u00a0private astronauts to space, part of a historic mission dubbed “Polaris Dawn<\/a>,”<\/em> which would perform the world’s first commercial spacewalk.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Teams are taking a closer look at a ground-side helium leak on the Quick Disconnect umbilical. Falcon and Dragon remain healthy and the crew continues to be ready for their multi-day mission to low-Earth orbit,” SpaceX wrote on X late Monday night.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Teams are taking a closer look at a ground-side helium leak on the Quick Disconnect umbilical. Falcon and Dragon remain healthy and the crew continues to be ready for their multi-day mission to low-Earth orbit.<\/p>\n

Next launch opportunity is no earlier than Wednesday, August 28 \u2192\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2014 SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 27, 2024<\/a><\/p>\n

SpaceX is now targeting Falcon 9’s launch of Polaris Dawn to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida around 0338 ET Wednesday morning. There are two\u00a0additional launch opportunities within the four-hour window at 0523 ET and 0709 ET. A\u00a0further backup launch window is available on Thursday.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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During the five-day mission in LEO,\u00a0the four-person crew led by\u00a0billionaire Jared Isaacman, who is also personally funding the mission, “will reach the highest Earth orbit ever flown since the Apollo program and participate in the first-ever extravehicular activity (EVA) by commercial astronauts wearing SpaceX-developed EVA suits,” Elon Musk’s space company said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“They will also conduct 36 research studies and experiments from 31 partner institutions designed to advance both human health on Earth and during long-duration spaceflight, and test Starlink laser-based communications in space,” the private space company noted.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, NASA publicly called up SpaceX on Saturday to bring home the two-person crew of Boeing Starliner stranded on the\u00a0International Space Station<\/a> for more than two months. The return flight on SpaceX’s\u00a0Dragon will occur sometime in early 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nTue, 08\/27\/2024 – 06:55<\/span><\/p>\n

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