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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 Monday December 23 2019, @07:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 23 2019, @07:11AM (#935417)

    Also I suspect you're not the sort to actively seek out information on your own here you go:

    Main NASA Page [nasa.gov]
    Audio of conference [nasa.gov]
    Transcript of conference [nasa.gov]

    The second to last question is particularly great. It was originally supposed to be the last question but they decided to take one more. Could be a coincidence but it's a question that ended up painting Boeing in an unimaginably negative light, based on their own answers. Great stuff. 'Why were there no redundancies or failsafes?' 'We're not sure. We're looking into that.' Hahaha.