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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.
See also:
https://spacenews.com/starliner-suffers-off-nominal-orbital-insertion-after-launch/
https://spacenews.com/starliner-anomaly-to-prevent-iss-docking/
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(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 21 2019, @01:39AM
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.