We’re hearing from one of NASA’s launch weather officers.<\/p>\n
Mark Burger says the weather has been a “nuanced thing for us at times” but the current blue skies at the space centre are a good sign.<\/p>\n
He says breezes will “continue to be an issue” but are a “minor” problem.<\/p>\n
“Artemis is a very resilient vehicle,” he says, “so despite the breezes, it looks like that concern is a minimal one” – showing the below slides.<\/p>\n
Cumulus clouds moving from the east side of Florida to the west – and then evolving into showers – is “one of the watch items” for tomorrow’s launch, Burger adds.<\/p>\n
The risk of lightning, with any sort of showers, is “quite low”, and expectations for this would not come until the late afternoon.<\/p>\n
“Any of that activity pushes towards Orlando after that. So again, it leaves us in a better spot here for our launch opportunity.”<\/p>\n
Burger says the sun has become a “little bit more active – over the last day we’ve had a solar flare erupt, but no minimal impact”.<\/p>\n
He adds: “Most of the energy is not Earth-facing.”<\/p>\n
Burger says: “The weather is a changeable entity, and we do have a tendency to move towards somewhat less favourable through the rest of the week.<\/p>\n
“It isn’t a huge drop off, but again, it’s of a little bit more of a situation where we’ll have to monitor those feisty cumulus clouds and potentially a few showers and breezes as well.”<\/p>\n
“But again, at the current time I see no issues in terms of our launch capability for that.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We’re hearing from one of NASA’s launch weather officers. Mark Burger says the weather has been a “nuanced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375411,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-375410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375410\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}