Parker Solar Probe launch scrubbed two minutes prior to launch
The launch of the Parker Solar Probe on a ULA Delta 4-Heavy rocket was scrubbed early this morning two minutes prior to launch.
[A] member of the launch team announced a gaseous helium regulator alarm at T-minus 1 minute, 55 seconds. There was not enough time remaining in the launch window Saturday to resolve the alarm, so launch managers declared a scrub for the day.
In a brief statement, ULA said the launch was scrubbed “due to a violation of a launch limit, resulting in a hold.”
No other information about the gaseous helium system alarm, or the other technical concerns during the countdown, were released by NASA or ULA.
They are going to try again tonight, at 3:31 am Eastern. You can watch it here. The launch window closes on August 23. If they do not launch by then, they will have to wait until May 2019.
The spacecraft will fly closer to the Sun then any spacecraft ever has in order to study the Sun’s corona.
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The launch of the Parker Solar Probe on a ULA Delta 4-Heavy rocket was scrubbed early this morning two minutes prior to launch.
[A] member of the launch team announced a gaseous helium regulator alarm at T-minus 1 minute, 55 seconds. There was not enough time remaining in the launch window Saturday to resolve the alarm, so launch managers declared a scrub for the day.
In a brief statement, ULA said the launch was scrubbed “due to a violation of a launch limit, resulting in a hold.”
No other information about the gaseous helium system alarm, or the other technical concerns during the countdown, were released by NASA or ULA.
They are going to try again tonight, at 3:31 am Eastern. You can watch it here. The launch window closes on August 23. If they do not launch by then, they will have to wait until May 2019.
The spacecraft will fly closer to the Sun then any spacecraft ever has in order to study the Sun’s corona.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
NASA explains why Parker Solar Probe won’t melt as it travels to Sun
https://youtu.be/9f4994MIlr0
2:54
We stayed up all night last night to watch the launch, it was disappointing but fun. Hope is goes today!!
Does anyone know if they would reclaim the helium and oxygen or just bleed it out and eat the cost?