This is the second postponement after NASA had to stop the planned launch on Saturday in order to repair a leak in the liquid hydrogen pipes * During the morning refueling there was a leak again, so it was decided to give the shuttle more time for repairs until the next launch window
The American space agency NASA has announced that a hydrogen leak has again been detected from the piping that carries the gas from the space shuttle Endeavor's external fuel tank to the shuttle's engines.
The shuttle was supposed to take off to the space station today after a four-day delay. This is after the planned launch A leak was discovered on Saturday from the pipe carrying the excess hydrogen to the outside of the launch, and the engineers were convinced that they would be able to solve the problem within a few days andlaunch The same today (Wednesday). However, because a similar type of hydrogen leak and in the same place occurred this morning while refueling. The scientists examined the system for about an hour and only then came to the conclusion that it was not a fault that could be fixed as part of the launch preparations.
Endeavor is now scheduled to launch mission STS-127 to the International Space Station on July 11 at 19:39 EST (July 12, 02:39 Israel time).
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It's time for the shuttles to retire and start using the Orion spacecraft...
Even my car is better maintained 😐
That's how it is under conditions of lack of budget,
Repairs instead of replacing the old with the new.
How did NASA not detect the flaw a month or two ago, when there was still time to fix it?
Imagine that Atlantis in the Hubble repair mission had a problem, and Endeavor was needed for the STS-400 rescue mission, then they would have discovered the fuel leak in Endeavour, it would have ended in disaster!!