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CST-100 Starliner USA: Boeing: LEO: Atlas V: 7 [note 15] [6] 5.03 [7] 4.56 [7] 13,000 Solar panels Parachute landing (two forward cover chutes, two drogues, three pilots and three mains) with airbags: 2024 (2019) Active: 1 (2) Orion USA: Lockheed Martin Astrium: Lunar, Mars: Space Launch System: 4 [note 16] 3.3: 5: 8,900 capsule + 12,300 ...
Starliner landed safely in the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico on 7 September at 04:01:35 UTC (6 September, 11:01:35 pm MDT, local time at the landing site), about six hours after it undocked from the ISS. [113] [114] Starliner experienced two new technical problems unrelated to its earlier issues during the reentry. There was a brief ...
A look at the newest ride and its shakedown cruise: THE CAPSULE White with black and blue trim, Boeing's Starliner capsule is about 10 feet (3 meters) tall and 15 feet (4.5 meters) in diameter.
Before the valve issue arose, Starliner — which Boeing designed to rival SpaceX’s prolific Crew Dragon capsule — was set to take off for its inaugural crewed test run at 10:34 p.m. ET Monday ...
The flight control team will continue to monitor the leak rates in Starliner’s propulsion system and after docking, all of Starliner manifolds were closed per normal plans and currently, there ...
To make way for a Boeing Starliner as a part of the planned 6 May 2024 Boeing Crew Flight Test that would dock to the forward port of Harmony, the crew relocated Crew Dragon Endeavour to the zenith port of Harmony on 2 May 2024, docking to the zenith port at 13:46 UTC. After several delays, Starliner docked on 6 June 2024. [17]
The Starliner capsule “Calypso” has now been in space 59 days and counting. The mission is intended to serve as the final step toward proving Boeing’s long-delayed spacecraft is safe to fly ...
Both Boeing and SpaceX's capsules are designed to be autonomous and reusable. This Starliner is the same one that made the first test flight in 2019. Unlike the SpaceX Dragons, Starliner has traditional hand controls and switches alongside touchscreens and, according to the astronauts, is more like NASA’s Orion capsules for moon missions.