The second attempt this month to lunch the atlantis that carries the European lab to the space was canceled due to an emergency engine cutoff system part need to be repeared because of malfunction, that is an other delay for the European space permanent laboratory to be launched

The flight was set by Nasa to be done after the 10th January, depend on the time that will take the engineers to repair the malfunction, they do believe that the problem maybe the connector that relays electrical signals from the sensors that resides in the fuel tank,

Saturday they will remove the suspected part and will be sent to the marshall space flight center in Alabama to be analyzed, after fixed, NASA may decide to test the repaired connector by filling the shuttle's fuel tank with super cold propellants in a practice run before getting ready to launch Europe's long-awaited Columbus module.