NASA officials said. The burn slowed Starliner's velocity by 285 mph (459 kph), keeping the capsule on track for a touchdown in New Mexico at 6:49 p.m. EDT (2249 GMT). A few minutes after the burn wrapped up, Starliner jettisoned its service module, another milestone...
A new launch date had been set for May 25, but asmall helium leak was discovered in the service module, which contains support systems and instruments for operating a spacecraft. Helium leaks and a thruster issue then threatened to delay Starliner's docking. Five days afte...
The service module was jettisoned as planned before re-entry, burning up in the atmosphere, and engineers will not be able to examine the hardware to pin down exactly what caused the helium leaks and degraded thruster performance during the ship's rendezvous with the station. The Starliner ...
The Starliner's crew, commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore and co-pilot Sunita Williams, came within about two hours of launch on May 6, only to be derailed by troublewith a pressure relief valvein their Atlas 5 rocket, and ahelium leakin the capsule's propulsion module. ...
NASA is exploring options to bring home the crew of Boeing's Starliner after the capsule experienced multiple issues during its first crewed flight.
being observed on the ground, Stich noted. The thruster type, he told Space.com during the press conference, "has heritage" from other spaceflight programs at Aerojet (an L3Harris company), but was modified for Starliner's service module, where the RCS thrusters and propulsion system are ...
Stich said the best place to test these issues is in orbit because they can replicate the thermal conditions on Starliner exactly, unlike simulations on Earth. The thruster issue is limited to the spacecraft's service module, which does not return to Earth with the crew module. ...
A new launch date was subsequently set for May 25, but then asmall helium leak was discovered in the Starliner service module, which contains support systems and instruments for operating the spacecraft. Those helium leaks and a thruster issue threatened to delay Starliner...
That launch attempt was called off because ofunrelated trouble with a valvein the United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket that was quickly corrected. But the helium leak in the Starliner's service module, detected during the May 6 countdown, has proven to be more difficult to resolve to everyon...
A more vexing problem then cropped up: a small-but-persistent helium leak in the Starliner's propulsion system that affected one of 24 low-power maneuvering thrusters in the capsule's service module. Mission managers ultimately decided to launch the spacecraft as is, concluding the leak did not...