Cold weather in Florida is pushing back the Artemis II launch

If the February 2nd bedewed formal rehearsal is successful, the Artemis II ngo could motorboat arsenic aboriginal arsenic February 8th. | Photo by Jim Ross / NASA

As a effect of acold upwind and windy conditions moving done Florida, NASA is present targeting Monday, February 2nd for a bedewed formal rehearsal of the Artemis II Space Launch System (SLS) rocket. Depending connected however Monday's rehearsal goes, NASA volition perchance acceptable a motorboat day for Artemis II. But arsenic a effect of the weather-related delays, NASA says February 6th and 7th "are nary longer viable opportunities" for a launch. Sunday, February 8th volition alternatively beryllium the archetypal imaginable window.

NASA primitively planned to behaviour the bedewed formal rehearsal for the rocket this weekend, which is presently stacked with the Orion spacecraft connected Launch Pad 39B astatine …

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