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Boeing officials had high hopes that a successful mission would be the demonstration needed to win approval from NASA for Starliner to join SpaceX in making routine trips to orbit on behalf of the ...
By late September 2021, Boeing had not determined the root cause of the problem, and the flight was delayed indefinitely. [78] Through October 2021, NASA and Boeing continued to make progress and were "working toward launch opportunities in the first half of 2022", [ 79 ] In December 2021, Boeing decided to replace the entire service module and ...
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’s Starliner spacecraft that launched NASA’s Crew Flight Test astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station is pictured docked to the Harmony module’s ...
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 and NASA then began an exhaustive series of tests and analyses to determine what caused the problems and whether they might get worse or otherwise pose a threat to a safe re-entry and on ...
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 ...
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.