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Boeing has faced mechanical problems, ... Boeing agreed to pay $2.5 billion in 2021 in a deal with the federal government to avoid ... and bring the Boeing Starliner home un-crewed, is a result of ...
The high-stakes mission is the Starliner’s first crewed flight, and it was meant to be the final hurdle before NASA could certify Boeing’s spacecraft to make routine trips to and from the ...
Boeing CST-100 Starliner for OFT-2 Arrives at SLC-41. On 9 December 2020, NASA and Boeing announced that 29 March 2021 was the targeted launch date for the OFT-2 mission. [14] [11] On 16 December 2020, Boeing officials released the official mission patch for the Orbital Flight Test-2 mission.
Boeing officials said on August 25, 2020 that they set the stage for the first Starliner demonstration mission with astronauts in mid-2021. [26] Boeing modified the design of the Starliner docking system prior to OFT-2 to add a re-entry cover for additional protection during the capsule's fiery descent through the atmosphere.
This mission follows years of other challenges Boeing has faced with Starliner. In 2019, an unmanned aircraft saw a test failure with dozens of software glitches, design problems and management ...
June 6: During the coast phase of Boeing Crew Flight Test mission two helium leaks in Starliner pressurization system have been found, in addition to one known before the launch. Throughout the docking process, five of the RCS thrusters failed, prompting the docking to be delayed until four of them came online after several resets.
The decision to bring the Starliner down without its crew was a morale-sapping blow to Boeing in the wake of earlier problems that delayed the Starliner's first piloted flight by nearly four years ...
This week, Boeing said the Starliner capsule's problems aren’t a concern for the return trip and "the astronauts are not stranded.” The long-delayed test flight is the first with astronauts ...