The highly-anticipated test flight was scheduled for July 21 but is now delayed indefinitely. It's a bad situation that's now become considerably worse.
on Thursday, however, NASA and Boeing announced that they have decided to stand down from the launch attempt to address recently discovered issues with the CST-100 Starliner crew vehicle.The two new safety hazards were discovered in the past week during an in-depth review of the vehicle. The first has to do with the load capacity of Starliner’s three parachutes, which are designed to safely land the crew vehicle.
The second recently discovered issue involves hundreds of feet of protective tape used to cover the wiring harnesses inside the Starliner vehicle, which turned out to be flammable. At this point, it’s too late to get rid of the flammable tape without causing more damage to the vehicle. “It’s highly unlikely that we would go in and cut this tape off,” Mark Nappi, Boeing Starliner program manager and vice president, told reporters during Thursday’s briefing.
We are now determining when we will be ready to launch, but anticipate additional parachute testing,” Boeing wrote in a. “We are committed to the Starliner program and are working closely with NASA to identify a new launch date.” There have been numerous other issues that have plagued Boeing’s Starliner program from the start. The company is under a
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