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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: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 21 2019, @07:55AM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 21 2019, @07:55AM (#934937)

    This is the exact same vessel that also experienced an "anomaly" during their pad abort test [spacenews.com] where only 2 of the 3 parachutes deployed. Boeing, alongside NASA, declared it a success and moved forward to this test - altogether skipping the critical in-flight abort test. And now NASA is suggesting this test may be sufficient for them to go straight to launching humans. And 100% of this nonsense is by fully funded by taxpayer dollars. This is why people, even those fully in support of public space programs, want smaller government. This is so stupidly broken and Boeing, alongside NASA and the taxpayer, are fast-tracking another Challenger disaster. This is corruption that stands to potentially devastate the public space program.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 21 2019, @01:39PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 21 2019, @01:39PM (#934974)

    This is why people, even those fully in support of public space programs, want smaller government.

    Whoa there, cowboy. I want just a smaller MIC, smaller Boeing included.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 21 2019, @02:50PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 21 2019, @02:50PM (#934983)

      Agreed in theory, but in practice are they even separable? The military industrial complex is an endless source of donations, porks, and all the other tools politicians need to help keep themselves in office. And the DNC has effectively turned that party harder and harder towards the MIC. What do you think the gesticulating against Russia is going to lead to? And on the republican side... well it's kind of ironic there was only 11 years between Eisenhower's parting words on the immense risk of the MIC and then Reagan giving Republicans a perma-hardon for it.

      Only way I ever see it declining is if we take all of government down quite a few notches.

      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 23 2019, @08:24PM

        by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 23 2019, @08:24PM (#935611)

        Burn DC down and stick 'em like roasted pigs on their way out.

    • (Score: 1) by khallow on Sunday December 22 2019, @03:06PM

      by khallow (3766) Subscriber Badge on Sunday December 22 2019, @03:06PM (#935182) Journal

      I want just a smaller MIC

      You just haven't thought about it yet. The US has a smaller MIC than it did in 1970. It just resulted in the power concentrated in fewer hands.