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NASA extend delay to Endeavour launch

May 1, 2011

by yaska77

NASA officials have today confirmed that launch of the Shuttle Endeavour (STS-134) will not happen on Monday 2nd May as previously expected.  Additional time is needed to correct the electrical troubles which saw the launch on Friday 29th April scrubbed.

EDIT: A new launch date is yet to be established, but NASA have said it won’t be before 8th May.

We’ll confirm any further details here as soon as we know!

Credit: NASA

Endeavour facts:

  • Named after the ship commanded by British explorer James Cook from 1769 to 1771
  • Endeavour was the last orbiter built and flew its maiden voyage on 7th May 1992
  • Made the first American ISS construction flight, delivering the Unity Module
  • Carried out the mission to correct the Hubble Space Telescope’s flawed vision
  • Its radar map of the planet is one of the most used Earth-observation data-sets ever acquired
  • Total space time to date: 280 days; Total Earth orbits: 4,429; Individual crew members: 133

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Endeavour STS-134 launch postponed due to heater problem

April 29, 2011

by yaska77

NASAKennedy on Twitter is reporting the launch today has been scrubbed due to the heater problem on the Auxiliary Power Unit No. 1. With an expected turnaround of 48 hours, NASA says the next launch attempt isn’t likely to happen before Sunday at 14:59 EDT (19:59 BST).

Update: NASA now says the Launch will be no earlier than Monday at 14:33 EDT (19:33 BST)

The NASATV feed in the previous post will be showing a press conference later this afternoon/evening at 16:00 EDT (21:00 BST) today, so keep watching for the latest news.

And we’ll see you back here for the second launch attempt with live NASATV coverage!

Source: @NASAKennedy and @spaceflightnow on Twitter

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Endeavour countdown resumes

April 29, 2011

by yaska77

The countdown to the launch of NASA’s Shuttle Endeavour (STS-134) has resumed a T minus 3 hours after a scheduled countdown hold.  The famous clock will now only stop again at T minus 20 minutes, and again at T minus 9 minutes (full NASA countdown hold explanation here).

Endeavour’s crew are now suited for launch, and are travelling in the “Astrovan” to the pad.

NASA TV are now running live coverage:

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Watch the launch live in standard definition here, or click here to visit the feed on the external UStream site

The latest update from the launchpad is that two of the heaters appear to have failed on Endeavour’s Auxiliary Power Unit No. 1. Technicians are currently assessing whether that is going to be a problem for launch. The shuttle has three APUs that provide the hydraulic power to drive the ship’s aerosurfaces, deploy the landing gear and gimbal the main engine nozzles.

Source: spaceflightnow

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