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Hurricane Nicole Delays Private Rocket Launch to No Earlier Than Sunday

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 A cargo-supply mission scheduled to blast off to the International Space Station from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia this Friday will happen no sooner than Sunday (Oct. 16) as Hurricane Nicole marches straight toward the rocket’s tracking site in Bermuda.

NASA and Orbital ATK, a private spaceflight company contracted by NASA to fly unmanned resupply missions to the space station, currently have until Oct. 19 to try and launch Antares, and are working to extend the window, NASA spokesman Keith Koehler of Wallops Flight Facility told Space.com in an email. If they stick with the Sunday launch date, Antares is scheduled to lift off at 8:03 p.m. EDT (0003 Oct. 17), with a 5-minute launch window.

When NASA announced the delay on Tuesday (Oct. 11), Hurricane Nicole was still a tropical storm forming over the Atlantic Ocean. Later in the day, the storm was upgraded to a Category 1 hurricane.

“The tracking station at Bermuda is required to conduct the Antares launch from Wallops,” Steven Kremer, chief of the Wallops Range and Mission Management Office, said in a statement. “The ability to support a launch will depend on the impact the storm has on not only our systems, but also the overall Bermuda infrastructure.”

This particular resupply mission launch has faced several delays since its original target launch date in July, but previous delays were not weather-related. The upcoming launch will be the first time that Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket will fly to the space station since a catastrophic explosion during an attempted launch in 2014

 

 

 

Report Source:- http://www.space.com/34369-hurricane-nicole-delays-antares-rocket-launch.html 



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