SpaceX Postpones Landmark Polaris Dawn Mission Launch To Wednesday After Identifying Helium Leak: Elon Musk Says 'We Are Triple-Checking Everything...'
SpaceX Postpones Landmark Polaris Dawn Mission Launch To Wednesday After Identifying Helium Leak: Elon Musk Says 'We Are Triple-Checking Everything...'
Elon Musk's SpaceX on Monday said that it is postponing the launch of the Polaris Dawn mission to Wednesday after identifying a helium leak.
spacex公司創始人伊隆·馬斯克在週一表示，鑑於識別出了一處氦氣泄漏，將把Polaris黎明任務的發射推遲到週三。
What Happened: SpaceX was originally slated to launch the mission on Tuesday but is now looking to launch the mission at 3:38 a.m. ET on Wednesday from Florida.
發生了什麼事：SpaceX最初計劃在星期二進行任務發射，但現在計劃在星期三凌晨3:38從佛羅里達發射。
The postponement is for the company to check out a helium leak identified on Monday. Both the Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon spacecraft for the mission remain healthy, SpaceX said.
推遲是爲了公司在週一發現的氦氣泄漏進行檢查。SpaceX表示，用於任務的獵鷹9號火箭和龍飛船仍然健康。
"Teams are taking a closer look at a ground-side helium leak on the Quick Disconnect umbilical," the company said on Monday evening.
「團隊正在仔細查看週一晚上公司表示的地面氦氣泄漏的快速斷開數據線。」
Teams are taking a closer look at a ground-side helium leak on the Quick Disconnect umbilical. Falcon and Dragon remain healthy and the crew continues to be ready for their multi-day mission to low-Earth orbit.
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 27, 2024
Next launch opportunity is no earlier than Wednesday, August 28 →...
團隊正在仔細查看快速斷開數據線上的地面氦氣泄漏。獵鷹和龍飛船仍然健康，機組人員繼續準備進行多日的低地球軌道任務。
— spacex(@SpaceX) 2024年8月27日
下一次發射機會最早是在8月28日星期三 →...
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk also took to X and said that the company is "triple-checking" everything to make sure there is nothing more it can do to improve crew safety.
SpaceX首席執行官伊隆·馬斯克還表示，公司正在「三重檢查」一切，以確保沒有更多可以提高機組人員安全性的事情。
An incredible amount of work has gone into this historic mission by an amazing team.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) August 27, 2024
We are triple-checking everything to make sure there is nothing more we can do to improve crew safety.
一個了不起的團隊已經投入了大量的工作來完成這個歷史性的任務。
— 伊隆·馬斯克(@elonmusk)2024年8月27日
我們正在三重檢查一切，以確保我們盡一切所能來提高機組人員的安全。
Why It Matters: Musk had warned of the possibility of postponing the mission early on Monday, citing the increased risk associated with the mission.
爲什麼重要：馬斯克在週一早些時候曾警告可能推遲任務，稱與該任務相關的風險增加。
"Crew safety is absolutely paramount and this mission carries more risk than usual, as it will be the furthest humans have traveled from Earth since Apollo and the first commercial spacewalk! If any concerns arise, the launch will be postponed until those concerns are addressed," Musk said.
「機組人員安全絕對是至關重要的，這項任務比平常帶來更多的風險，因爲這將是自阿波羅以來人類遠離地球的最遠距離，也是首次由商業公司進行太空行走！如果出現任何問題，發射將推遲直到這些問題得到解決。」 馬斯克說。
Polaris Dawn is the first of up to three human spaceflight missions planned under the Polaris program founded by Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman.
Polaris Dawn是Shift4 Payments公司CEO賈裏德·艾薩克曼創立的Polaris計劃下最多三次人類飛航任務中的第一次。
SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft and the all-civilian Polaris Crew composed of four including its mission commander Isaacman, Kidd Poteet, Sarah Gillis, and Anna Menon will spend up to five days in orbit. While Isaacman and Poteet work together at Shift4, Gillis and Menon are both SpaceX engineers.
spacex（臨時代碼）公司的龍飛船和全民極光機組由四個人組成，包括任務指揮官艾薩克曼（Isaacman）、基德·波提（Kidd Poteet）、莎拉·吉利斯（Sarah Gillis）和安娜·梅農（Anna Menon），他們將在軌道上停留長達五天。艾薩克曼和波提在Shift4Payments公司共事，吉利斯和梅農都是spacex(臨時代碼)的工程師。
The key objective of the mission is to conduct a spacewalk nearly 435 miles above the Earth — marking the first-ever spacewalk by a commercial company. While space agency NASA routinely conducts extravehicular activities, no private player has attempted it before, making this a landmark mission for SpaceX and commercial spaceflight companies.
該任務的主要目標是在地球上方約435英里處進行太空行走，標誌着商業公司首次進行太空行走。雖然NASA太空總署經常進行太空活動，但之前沒有私營公司嘗試過，這使得這次對於spacex(臨時代碼)和商業航天公司來說成爲具有里程碑意義的任務。
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Photo courtesy: Polaris Dawn
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