Boeing Starliner Launch Today
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Launch day! CFT is scheduled to lift off on 12:25 p.m. EDT (1625 GMT) on Saturday, June 1, but the livestream action will start about four hours earlier at 8:15 a.m. (1215 GMT).
The NASA livestream coverage will continue long past launch, all the way through Starliner's docking with the ISS and beyond.
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Scrubbed because of launch sequencer computer malfunction.
"Now look here, you Baltic gas passer... " - Mik, 6/14/08
The saying, "Lite is just one damn thing after another," is a gross understatement. The damn things overlap.
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@George-K said in Boeing Starliner Launch Today:
Scrubbed because of launch sequencer computer malfunction.
Start the suicide watch.
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@George-K said in Boeing Starliner Launch Today:
Scrubbed because of launch sequencer computer malfunction.
Written by the same people that wrote the software for the 737 Max?
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Docking in a few minutes, waiting for lighting conditions, as of 1:18 PM 6/6.
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@Copper said in Boeing Starliner Launch Today:
Docking in a few minutes, waiting for lighting conditions, as of 1:18 PM 6/6.
Ruh-Roh...
https://futurism.com/the-byte/boeing-starliner-trouble-docking-iss
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https://futurism.com/the-byte/boeing-starliner-stuck-space-station-more-leaks
After years of delays and technical problems, Boeing's Starliner finally made it to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams on board last week.
But when exactly it'll be able to undock and deliver its crew of two back to the surface remains to be seen.
Teams have discovered an astonishing five different helium leaks so far, each representing yet another thorn in the spacecraft's already cursed development. The gas is "used in spacecraft thruster systems to allow the thrusters to fire" while navigating through space, according to Boeing.
NASA is giving Boeing another four days, extending Wilmore and Williams' mission onboard the ISS from June 14 to no earlier than June 18, though it's unclear whether the leaks are to blame for the delay. Boeing is still "assessing what impacts, if any, five small leaks in the service module helium manifolds would have on the remainder of the mission," according to an update.
