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On Saturday, NASA, the US space agency, said it will attempt to launch its new Moon rocket.
On Monday, a liftoff attempt had to be abandoned because one of the vehicle's four engines would not reach the necessary operational temperature.
Engineers believe they now know why the problem happened after studying the data.
They believe it is probably due to an inaccurate sensor reading, and they can create a plan of action to address the issue on launch day.
Earlier in the countdown, the process of chilling the engines would begin.
“We’ve got a path forward to get to where we need to get to, to support the next launch,” said John Honeycutt, who manages the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket project at Nasa.
Saturday’s launch will be timed for 14:17 local time (18:17 GMT; 19:17 BST) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Controllers will be given two hours to get the rocket off Earth.
SLS is the biggest launch vehicle ever developed by the US space agency.
It’s the modern equivalent of the Saturn V rockets that sent humans to the Moon in the 1960s and 70s – but with considerably more thrust off the launch pad.
SLS will send a big new crew capsule called Orion on a series of missions to the Moon under Nasa’s Artemis programme. This first mission is called Artemis I and will be an uncrewed demonstration.
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