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Another Ares 1-X Launch Delay

By Keith Cowing
NASA Watch
July 17, 2009

Ares I-X launch delayed; Ares I thrust oscillation problems continue, Orlando Sentinel
“Last month, Sentinel Space Editor Robert Block reported on the likelihood that the first test flight of the Ares I-X — a mockup of the Ares I intended ot test performance of the solid-fuel first stage — would be delayed past its scheduled date of Aug. 30. Officially, he reported, NASA was holding to the August date for liftoff at Kennedy Space Center but that September was “more likely.”
Now comes the officially revised date, courtesy of a memo from Johnson Space Center’s Robert Ess, the Ares I-X mission manager: Oct. 31.”

NASA JSC Internal memo: New I-X Launch Date
“Today at CxCB, we presented an update to our schedule and a new launch date of 10/31/09 was approved. This is still a very aggressive schedule and requires a lot of tasks to complete on or before their planned dates.”

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