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Starliner Fails to Make Journey to ISS

posted by janrinok on Friday December 20 2019, @06:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the keep-on-trying dept.

PiMuNu writes:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-50855395

The Boeing company is going to have to cut short the uncrewed demonstration flight of its new astronaut capsule.

The Starliner launched successfully on its Atlas rocket from Florida, but then suffered technical problems that prevented it from taking the correct path to the International Space Station.

It appears the capsule burnt too much fuel as it operated its engines, leaving an insufficient supply to complete its mission.

Starliner will now come back to Earth. A landing is planned in the New Mexico desert in about 48 hours.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 21 2019, @01:15AM (2 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 21 2019, @01:15AM (#934872)

    I wish I was joking, but what I've seen so far goes like this:
    When SpaceX has a delay they have to scramble to catch up or risk penalties.
    When Boeing has a delay then SpaceX gets held until they catch up.

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday December 21 2019, @01:21AM (1 child)

    by takyon (881) <takyonNO@SPAMsoylentnews.org> on Saturday December 21 2019, @01:21AM (#934873) Journal

    SpaceX's next Crew Dragon launch is delayed but that's actually good news [teslarati.com]

    SpaceX is doing an in-flight abort test, Boeing isn't.

    After that, SpaceX could launch astronauts in February March.

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    • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 21 2019, @01:39AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 21 2019, @01:39AM (#934879)

      That looks like a normal operational delay, so instead of making SpaceX wait they are letting Boeing skip an important test. I hope the astronauts don't wind up paying for that. Thank you.