NASA’s Artemis I launch has officially been delayed until November

Hurricane Ian made landfall in Florida as a Class 4 hurricane, however weakened right into a tropical storm by the point it reached the Kennedy Area Middle on Thursday. NASA says “there was no injury to Artemis flight {hardware},” and that its services solely suffered “minor water intrusion.”

Subsequent testing of the rocket’s fueling system confirmed that the leak was nonetheless current, however at a extra “manageable” degree. Now that the rocket’s again on the VAB, NASA says it’s going to “put together for extra inspections” and retest the Flight Termination System, which the Area Pressure makes use of to destroy the rocket if it goes off target.