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NASA will delay the launch of its next space shuttle mission until July in order to replace potentially faulty fuel sensors inside the orbiter’s massive external tank, the agency’s shuttle program ...

NASA has pinneddown the apparent location of an erratic fuel tank sensor glitch that foiledtwo launch attempts of the space shuttle Atlantis, the agency said Tuesday. Engineers trackedthe glitch to an ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — NASA called off today's attempt to launch the space shuttle Discovery on the first mission since the loss of Columbia two years ago, when launch controllers detected a problem ...

SUBJECT: Final Memorandum on the Review of the Space Shuttle Liquid Hydrogen Fuel Tank Sensors (Report No. IG-09-009; Assignment No. S-08-011-00) Since March 2006, Marshall Space Flight Center’s (MSFC ...

NASA postponed the launch of space shuttle Atlantis onFriday because of a problem with a sensor on the large external fuel tank. NASA will attempt to launch Atlantis at 11:15 a.m. ET Saturday. All six ...

IF THIS OCCURS, THE FUEL GAUGE IN THE INSTRUMENT CLUSTER WOULD DISPLAY A LARGER AMOUNT OF FUEL THAN WAS ACTUALLY IN THE TANK. AS A RESULT, IF THE TANK BECAME EMPTY, THE VEHICLE COULD STALL INCREASING ...

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — For the fourth time in two weeks, NASA nixed the launch of the space shuttle Atlantis, this time for a faulty fuel tank sensor — the same glitch that has thwarted two other ...

The sensors tell ground controllers the amount of hydrogen fuel left in the tanks so the shuttle’s three main engines—or Space Shuttle Main Engines (SSMEs)—shut down before the fuel is exhausted.