Ares I-X test rocket voyage to launch pad delayed by a day .

“The rollout was scheduled for Monday,” said Dan Kanigan, spokesman for Marshall. “It is now delayed by at least 24 hours to allow time for the launch team to remove and replace a hydraulic accumulator that will be used to help steer the Ares I-X during flight.”

The rocket is now in the Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy. NASA hopes the test will help develop the Ares rockets the space agency plans as a shuttle replacement.
Kanigan said a test Wednesday, hydraulics engineers detected a nitrogen gas “leak in the accumulator which is located in the aft skirt. The pressurized nitrogen was leaking past a seal and into the area of the accumulator containing hydraulic fluid.”

The accumulator absorbs hydraulic pressure spikes as the system operates. The accumulator was being removed and replaced yesterday and the retest began today and will continue through tomorrow.

The same problem has occurred in the past on space shuttle flight hardware, most recently on Atlantis’ STS-117 in March 2007.

What affect this will have on the Ares I-X targeted Oct. 27 launch date, if any, is being assessed by management and will be based on when the rollout actually happens, Kanigan said.

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Though it’s not as attractive as LimeWire, peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing application Ares offers unrestricted searches and downloads, and it tested completely clean in our informal spyware tests. Ares is open source and available in a number of variations, mostly all are full of spyware, such as Ares Gold, Ares P2P 2.1, and Ares Plus. Ares is the only P2P client we’re aware of that includes online chat. Because it uses its own decentralized Ares network, Ares doesn’t return as many search hits as some of the other clients we tested, but it produces fewer fake files. Download music, movies, software programs, television shows, games and more.

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