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The Boeing Starliner (or CST-100) [c] is a spacecraft designed to transport crew to and from the International Space Station (ISS) and other low-Earth-orbit destinations. Developed by Boeing under NASA 's Commercial Crew Program (CCP), it consists of a reusable crew capsule and an expendable service module .
Boeing's CST-100 Starliner – "CST" an acronym for "Crew Space Transportation" – measures 4.6 meters (15 feet) in diameter and 5.1 meters (17 feet) in height. [106] [107] [138] The crew module of Starliner can be reused for up to ten flights, while the service module is expended during each flight.
In April 2012, NASA funded a study to determine if a less complex docking system could be used as the NASA Docking System that both met the international community's desire for a narrower soft capture system ring width, as well as providing the ISS a simpler active docking system compared to the then-planned design. [10] Boeing's proposal was ...
The Boeing Starliner capsule prepares to dock with the International Space Station. (NASA) Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft is more than 24 hours into its long-awaited inaugural crewed test flight ...
The only other time Boeing’s Starliner flew in space, it never got anywhere near the station, ending up in the wrong orbit. Boeing’s flight comes three years after Elon Musk’s Spacex pulled ...
Starliner was expected to dock at the space station by 12:15 p.m. ET, but the thruster issue caused a delay of an hour and 15 minutes, and the mission moved on to a new docking window.
Two International Docking Adapters were added to the International Space Station, and another was destroyed on ascent. [7] As of September 2023 these ports have been used during nineteen SpaceX Dragon 2 missions and one Boeing Starliner mission. Boeing Starliner uses the NASA Docking System version of IDSS, implementing the active role.
The uncrewed Boeing Starliner docking with the space station marks the first time both NASA Commercial Crew vehicles are simultaneously in use.