Summary

Description	GEORGE DILLER: This is Atlas launch control. We have with us NASA Launch Manager Chuck Dovale to talk to us about the anomaly that scrubbed today's launch attempt of the Atlas V with the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. Chuck, we seem to have recovered from the thunderstorm overnight fairly well. Things were going along right smartly until we got into the hydrogen tanking on Centaur. Can you explain what it was that happened? CHUCK DOVALE: Okay, George. It was, the weather certainly provided a lot of opportunities for work and stress earlier in the night. But as you say, we did recover from that and we'd gotten liquid oxygen loaded on both stages, and as we were getting into the automatic loading of liquid hydrogen into Centaur, we had the propellant loading system showing that the sensors were dry when some of the screens on the information, the data that we were getting were showing wet, so we had a discrepancy there. We backed out of that and went into a troubleshooting mode. It wasn't
Date	2005-08-11
Source	images.nasa.gov

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