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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: 2) by RS3 on Saturday December 21 2019, @03:04AM

    by RS3 (6367) on Saturday December 21 2019, @03:04AM (#934908)

    On another site I commented: It was a relativistic problem: the spaceship accelerated so fast that it altered the space-time continuum just enough and MCAS overcompensated.

    Don't knock those outsourcers. For one, they make the stockholders happy. Well, for a short while. And secondly, they improve my career prospects. :)

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