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Watch unrecorded arsenic NASA targets 1:04 a.m. EST Wednesday, Nov. 16, for the debut motorboat of its monolithic Space Launch System rocket and Orion capsule from Kennedy Space Center successful Florida.

Teams supporting the agency's Artemis I ngo to the satellite and backmost person 2 hours to motorboat the 322-foot rocket from pad 39B, perchance kicking disconnected a 25-day ngo if each goes according to plan. Weather is 80% "go."

Follow unrecorded updates beneath (for real-time updates, visit this link): 

Team inactive repairing contented astatine pad

10:30 p.m. EST: The reddish team, seen adjacent to the rocket's 4 RS-25 main engines below, is inactive moving the hydrogen leak contented astatine pad 39B. There is simply a accidental this could beryllium resolved successful clip for a motorboat tonight. Window runs to 3:04 a.m. EST.

NASA volition nonstop repair squad to pad 39B

9:55 p.m. EST: Sounds similar NASA volition so nonstop the “red team” into the pad country to hole the LH2 replenish/top-off leak. The plan: 2 technicians and a information person volition spell successful 2 vehicles, tighten the “packing nuts,” past permission ASAP. Will instrumentality astir 15 minutes.

NASA mightiness nonstop squad to pad 39B

9:30 p.m. EST: Sounds similar NASA is considering sending the "red team" into pad 39B to analyse the contented and fundamentally tighten immoderate bolts related to the hydrogen system. Stay tuned.

Tracking hydrogen replenishment issue

9:20 p.m. EST: Teams successful KSC's Launch Control Center are keeping an oculus connected what appears to beryllium a hydrogen strategy leak astatine pad 39B. This is related to an air-exposed sensor, truthful its threshold is debased – that sensor detected a 1% attraction of hydrogen outside the rocket, meaning determination is simply a decent leak determination down toward the ground. Teams see 1% to beryllium the threshold.

Stay tuned.

Weather inactive coagulated for SLS launch

9 p.m. EST: Space Force upwind forecasters accidental the "go" probability for tonight's Artemis I motorboat present sits astatine 90%, which is simply a 10% betterment implicit the erstwhile report. Expecting different update successful astir an hour.

Otherwise, teams are not seeing immoderate method issues with the rocket astatine pad 39B and the past stages of fueling are continuing arsenic planned.

Countdown continuing smoothly

8:30 p.m. EST: Teams proceed to prep the 322-foot Space Launch System rocket astatine Kennedy Space Center up of liftoff successful four-and-a-half hours. The rocket's Boeing-built halfway signifier is afloat fueled and successful bully shape; precocious signifier fueling is next. Still moving toward liftoff astatine 1:04 a.m. EST, which is the opening of tonight's two-hour window.

Welcome to unrecorded coverage; NASA connected people for launch

8 p.m. EST: Welcome to our unrecorded sum from Kennedy Space Center, wherever NASA's Space Launch System rocket is astir afloat fueled astatine pad 39B up of liftoff astatine 1:04 a.m. EST Wednesday. Despite the information that Hurricane Nicole swept done the Space Coast past week and immoderate rocket-related damages were reported, SLS is moving done the count without issue. That's contrary to three erstwhile attempts that were called disconnected owed to method issues.

Stay tuned.