The weather may force a rethink in the next day or so.
"All in all, it was a great day," Brad McCain, vice president and general manager at the Jacobs Space Operations Group, the prime contractor for NASA's Exploration Ground Systems Program at KSC, said during a call with reporters today .
The FTS is designed to destroy the SLS if it veers off course during launch. The system had been certified for a 25-day stretch, a deadline that expired earlier this month. But the Space Force has now approved the FTS through the Tuesday launch attempt and the backup opportunity of Oct. 2, NASA officials said.
Artemis 1 may still have to roll back to the VAB, however — to take shelter from a coming storm. A maelstrom called Tropical Depression 9 is gathering strength in the Caribbean, and it may end up churning toward KSC.
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