This afternoon’s scheduled launch of the European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicle-2 (ATV-2) “Johannes Kepler” from Kourou, French Guiana was scrubbed. A preliminary assessment indicates there may have been erroneous data on the flow of fuel through the manifolds on the first stage of the Ariane 5 rocket that resulted in the scrub. ESA engineers and managers will evaluate the issue before officially rescheduling the launch. NASA Television coverage Wednesday would begin at 4:30 p.m. EST for a liftoff at 4:50:55 p.m. While there is the potential for an ATV launch slip to affect next week’s targeted launch date of space shuttle Discovery, today’s scrub does not automatically impact the STS-133 mission. If ATV-2 launches Wednesday, then Discovery’s target date would move to Feb. 25. However, a longer ATV slip beyond Friday would result in STS-133 remaining on track for its targeted launch on Feb. 24 at 4:50 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This afternoon’s scheduled launch of the European Space Agency’s Automated Transfer Vehicle-2 (ATV-2) “Johannes Kepler” from Kourou, French Guiana was scrubbed. A preliminary assessment indicates there may have been erroneous data on the flow of fuel through the manifolds on the first stage of the Ariane 5 rocket that resulted in the scrub. ESA engineers and managers will evaluate the issue before officially rescheduling the launch. NASA Television coverage Wednesday would begin at 4:30 p.m. EST for a liftoff at 4:50:55 p.m. While there is the potential for an ATV launch slip to affect next week’s targeted launch date of space shuttle Discovery, today’s scrub does not automatically impact the STS-133 mission. If ATV-2 launches Wednesday, then Discovery’s target date would move to Feb. 25. However, a longer ATV slip beyond Friday would result in STS-133 remaining on track for its targeted launch on Feb. 24 at 4:50 p.m. EST.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":612598,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-shuttle-update"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=78485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/612598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=78485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=78485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=78485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}