Starliner ran into some more issues, and won't launch until next year - by AndyTomaswick
In that effort, the spacecraft again miscalculated its position and burned more fuel than was allotted to it to make it to the ISS. Despite failing to reach the station, it was successfully deorbited and returned to the ground safely, though it suffered a “dire flight anomaly” during the descent. NASA’s administrator a the time even suggested that astronauts could potentially ride on Boeing’s next Starliner effort.
As we reported in that instance, history is full of test flights that go wrong, and most of the time, people forget about them. But that first failure seemed particularly costly to Boeing, causing over three years of delays to the project and essentially forcing them to lose the race to be the first private provider to launch American personnel to the ISS to SpaceX.
Despite all the setbacks, the company is plowing forward. Mark Nappi, Boeing’s program manager for the Starliner, believes debris might have caused the thruster problems this time around. However, the culpable part of the craft was discarded on reentry, so “we will never know exactly what was the issue,” Nappi said.For engineers, those are the worst kind of problems, and it’s certainly not something you want to hear if you’re one of the astronauts planning on riding this capsule into space.
Ultimately, Boeing is sure to successfully launch its crew capsule into orbit with people on it. The company is deep-pocketed and has the support of NASA.
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