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“”Unfortunately, we’re not going to be able to make a launch attempt in the next few days,”” said
Friday’s launch attempt was scrubbed because a hydraulic system fuel-line heater failed. Officials had hoped the problem was simply a faulty thermostat, and proposed a Monday launch on that chance. But once technicians got inside the Endeavour’s aft equipment bay late Saturday, they realized that the problem originated in a switch box called a load-control assembly. To replace that, engineers have to retest many of the systems that box controls, and those evaluations would take at least a couple of days, eliminating any prospect of a launch early this week.
The latter part of this week is not available to
That leaves Sunday. But Moses and other
The next three days become problematic because the Russians are planning to undock their Soyuz spacecraft from the