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GEORGE DILLER: This is Pegasus Launch Control. Here with us now is Omar Baez, the assistant launch director for today's countdown.

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And we're going to talk with Omar a little bit about what's happened and a little bit on his take of what we have to do to get back into a launch posture again.

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Omar, welcome. And first of all, can you tell us what happened?

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OMAR BAEZ: Yeah, George. What we experienced was we, what's known as the lock pin that holds the fins in place while we're in captive carry.

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When the fin batteries were, when the fin batteries were activated and the pin pullers were told to pull out and unlock the fins,

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that we weren't able to get motion on the starboard side for some reason.

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I'm not sure on the port side just yet, but I know the starboard side, they had trouble with the pin puller there.

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So what happens is we've burned out our, we timed out on our thin battery time.

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DILLER: That's relatively short. Once you activate that, how long is it before they're...

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BAEZ: We get about 45 seconds of useful life after the, after they're activated.

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Actually, I think it's longer than that. I'd have to get back to you on the exact number.

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But we did, we did go through the life on that battery, and that's why we're returning to base right now.

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So the plan is to determine why the pin didn't pull. Could be something mechanical, could be ice, a number of things.

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So we'll try to determine what that is. Then the other thing we have to do is to change out the battery,

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the fin batteries, since we did expend those. And that's going to be about a 48-hour delay for us.

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DILLER: So, so we know that at least to change out the fin battery, it's 48 hours,

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and we have to figure out what's wrong before we can really say what our new launch attempt could be.

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And then we've got to ask the range what else is going on. So at this point,

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we know that we're down for at least 48 hours while they replace the fin batteries and do some

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troubleshooting and then see where we stand as far as being able to attempt another launch.

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So we can't really say for certain at this time when our next launch attempt will be, but it's no earlier than a 48-hour scrub.

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So, Omar, thanks very much and we'll just stay tuned.

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BAEZ: Thank you, George.

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DILLER: Thanks.

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