Nasa Rocket Launch today

News updates about Nasa Rocket Launch today,  NASA on Tuesday delayed the test flight of an unmanned prototype moon rocket due to poor weather.

The attempt to launch the 327-foot (100-meter) Ares 1-X rocket was reset for 8 a.m. EDT on Wednesday.

The flight is the centerpiece of a $445 million NASA technology demonstration program aimed at replacing the space shuttles. The shuttles, which began flying in 1981, are due to be retired next year after six more flights to complete construction of the International Space Station.

NASA planned to launch the demo rocket on Tuesday but was stymied by cloudy skies over the Kennedy Space Center and by a boat that wandered into the launch danger zone. Pilots and mariners who violate restricted zones can face jail terms and fines of up to $250,000.

Ares 1-X, currently the world’s tallest rocket, is a modified space shuttle booster outfitted with a faux second stage and a simulated Orion crew capsule. It is the first new rocket developed by NASA since the 1970s-era space shuttle. The test flight is intended to verify computer models used to design rockets.

Ares 1-X’s motor was made by Alliant Techsystems Inc as part of a $1.8 billion Ares development contract for NASA.

NASA hopes to develop two Ares rockets to return U.S. astronauts to the moon sometime in the 2020s. The program, however, is under review.

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Nasa Rocket Launch today was first posted on October 27, 2009 at 11:37 pm.

First Space Rocket Launched By South Korea

First Space Rocket Launched By South Korea, Final preparations have begun for the launch of South Korea’s first space rocket, scheduled to blast off later this week after a series of delays.

Barring last minute technical problems or unfavourable weather, the KSLV-1 rocket is expected to launch on Wednesday from the purpose-built Naro space centre on an island off the country’s south coast.

On Monday the 33-metre tall rocket, built with assistance from Russia, was transported from the assembly building to the launch-pad where it will undergo final tests and fuelling.

The rocket is carrying an experimental South Korean satellite along with the expectations of South Korean scientists who hope the launch will propel the country into an elite club of space-faring nations.

Government officials hope the project, which has cost hundreds of millions of dollars, will give a boost to the country’s high-tech sector.

But the planned launch has also been criticised by neighbouring North Korea, which says it was unfairly punished for a similar launch earlier this year and is a victim of double standards.

Commenting on the planned South Korean launch, the North said last week that it would be watching closely to see whether the international community would also refer the South to the United Nations Security Council.
Their reaction and attitude towards South Korea’s satellite launch will one again clearly prove whether the principle of equality exists or has collapsed. a statement on the North’s official news agency said.According to North Korean state media its April launch of a three-stage rocket successfully placed an experimental communications satellite into orbit.

The US and it allies however say no satellite was detected in orbit, and that the launch was cover for a test of the North’s long-range missile technology.

In response to the launch, the security council tightened international sanctions against North Korea, prompting Pyongyang to announce it was pulling out of six-nation nuclear disarmament talks.

A month later North Korea conducted its second nuclear test.

South Korean space officials insist their own planned rocket launch cannot be compared to the North’s rocket and poses no security threat.

We can’t put the North’s rocket launch on a parallel with ours,” Park Jeong-joo, director of the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, told reporters last month.

South Korea’s rocket, he said, was “purely for scientific and peaceful purposes.

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First Space Rocket Launched By South Korea was first posted on August 17, 2009 at 7:37 pm.