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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, @07:44PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday December 21 2019, @07:44PM (#935038)

    Actually listening to the NASA press conference now. They screwed up far worse than is even being reported. Just about everything on that craft screwed up. It failed to make a proper satellite link, the engines burnt themselves out in terms of both heat and utilization, and more. Boeing is joke, but the punchline is the taxpayer being forced to waste tens of billions of dollars a year subsidizing this useless company that's clearly simply no longer effective at anything other than buying congressmen.