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The upper and lower domes of Boeing Starliner Calypso being mated inside the Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility (C3PF) at Kennedy Space Center on June 19, 2018 Boeing Starliner Calypso landed at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico following an uncrewed Orbital Flight Test in December 2019.
Following a coast phase, Ship 30 reentered the atmosphere, performed a successful reentry despite forward flap damage, and executed a landing burn, splashing down precisely at its target in the Indian Ocean. A buoy camera captured Ship 30 exploding shortly after contact with the water. [9] 6 19 November 2024 22:00:00 [34] Block 1, B13: Block 1, S31
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.
Boeing has a $4.3 billion contract with NASA as part of its Commercial Crew Program. Starliner first did an unmanned test flight in 2019, but a software glitch prevented it from making it to the ...
Boeing, with its commercial airplane operations rocked by a series of crises involving its 737 MAX jetliners, needs a win in space for its Starliner venture, already several years behind schedule ...
Orbital Test Vehicle 7 (OTV-7), also referred to as United States Space Force-52 (USSF-52) or USA-349, [3] [4] is the fourth flight of the second Boeing X-37B, an American unmanned vertical-takeoff, horizontal-landing spaceplane.
Starliner undocks from space station, heads for Earth. The uncrewed spacecraft departed from the station at 6:04 p.m. ET in a process that took five minutes to complete.
The four currently active space station cargo vehicles. Clockwise from top left: Progress, Cargo Dragon 2, Cygnus, Tianzhou. A number of different spacecraft have been used to carry cargo to and from space stations .