Tag: Starliner
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NASA and Boeing trace roots of Starliner’s bad timing — and prepare for landing
An artist’s conception shows Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi in orbit. (Boeing Illustration) NASA and Boeing say they’ve learned more about the timing glitch that kept Boeing’s uncrewed CST-100 Starliner space taxi from making its planned rendezvous with the International Space Station — and they’re getting “an enormous amount of data” in advance of Sunday’s…
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Starliner suffers mission-shortening failure after successful launch
After a gorgeous and 100% successful launch atop the Atlas V rocket from United Launch Alliance, Boeing’s uncrewed Starliner crew capsule suffered a mission-shortening failure just 30 minutes into its inaugural flight. A Mission Event Timer issue resulted in Starliner burning a significantly larger amount of propellant than planned and forced Boeing and NASA to…
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Boeing’s Starliner space taxi fails to reach its intended orbit for first space station trip
Boeing’s Starliner space taxi lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket. (NASA Photo / Joel Kowsky) Boeing’s Starliner space taxi blasted off for the first time today on an uncrewed mission to the International Space Station, but ran into a problem that precluded a…
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Boeing, ULA launches Starliner, suffers orbital insertion issue – will return home Sunday
A moment nearly ten years in the making. After receiving a formal development award on 18 April 2011 for their CST-100 crew capsule, Boeing sent its Starliner spacecraft on its inaugural flight, albeit one that will be cut short. The uncrewed test, known as the Orbital Flight Test — or OFT — launched on a…
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It’s all systems go from NASA for uncrewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner to space station
Perched atop its Atlas 5 rocket, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi is being prepared for launch. (United Launch Alliance Photo) After conducting a flight readiness review today, NASA gave its go-ahead for launching Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi on an uncrewed demonstration flight to the International Space Station on Dec. 20. Starliner is due for…
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Starliner arrives at launch pad in major pre-flight milestone
The first Starliner crew vehicle from Boeing has arrived at SLC-41 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for stacking operations with its Atlas V rocket. Starliner rolled out of the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility (C3PF) at the Kennedy Space Center earlier this morning for the multi-mile trip to the pad. The event…
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Boeing’s Starliner space taxi — and Rosie the Rocketeer — meet up with their rocket
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi is transported out to United Launch Alliance’s vertical integration facility in Florida, where an Atlas 5 rocket is waiting. (ULA Photo) Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi was moved to its Florida launch complex and set atop its United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket today in preparation for next month’s uncrewed test…
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NASA watchdog report sharpens debate over cost of SpaceX vs. Boeing spaceships
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner are being developed to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station for NASA. (SpaceX / Boeing Illustrations) Boeing is in line to get paid substantially more per seat than SpaceX for astronaut trips to the International Space Station, in part because it negotiated an increase in…
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Boeing traces problem with Starliner parachute system to an unsecured pin
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner space taxi descends on the end of two parachutes during this week’s pad abort test. The Starliner’s heat shield can be seen falling away beneath the craft. (Boeing Photo) For want of a pin, the use of a spaceship’s parachute was lost. That may be a simplistic way to explain why one…
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NASA is ‘thrilled’ with pad abort test for Boeing’s Starliner space taxi despite parachute glitch
Two parachutes ease the descent of the Boeing-built CST-100 Starliner space taxi during an uncrewed pad abort test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. (NASA via YouTube) Boeing cleared a key milestone for launching NASA astronauts on its CST-100 Starliner space taxi today by executing an end-to-end test of its rocket-powered launch abort…