It comes after the launch of Starliner was delayed several times. The crewed flight test was tentatively scheduled for May 6, but was scrubbed after a problem with an oxygen valve on the ULA rocket. A new launch date had been set for May 25, but a small helium leak was discovered in ...
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket carrying two astronauts aboard Boeing's Starliner-1 Crew Flight Test, is launched on a mission to the International Space Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, June 5, 2024.Steve Nesius/Reuters A team from United Launch Alliance (ULA), whic...
it will come as a relief for Boeing that Monday night’s problem has nothing to do with its spacecraft. Now its down to ULA engineers to investigate the issue with the Centaur stage of the Atlas V rocket and to fix it so that the launch team can make another go of it. ...
NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore, left, and Suni Williams, wearing Boeing spacesuits, are seen as they prepare to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 41 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to board the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for the Crew...
helium leak in the Starliner spacecraft. The additional time will be used to ensure the system’s performance and safety for the flight carrying astronauts Wilmore and Williams to theInternational Space Station. Preparations continue, with the crew remaining in quarantine until closer to the launch....
NASA, Boeing, and ULA (United Launch Alliance) officials discussed details of a scrub decision made ahead of the second launch attempt for NASA’s Boeing Crew Flight Test on June 1, 2024. Participants in the briefing included Steve Stich, manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program; Mark Nappi,...
Before the successful launch of the Boeing Starliner today, it has been delayed for seven years and has had two failed attempts. The first one was on May 6 but the countdown was stopped after a rocket valve was not performing as it should. Wilmore and Williams, who were already aboard th...
It’s a setback for the mission team but safety has to come first, and so engineers decided out of an abundance of caution to halt the countdown clock and prepare launch for another day. When the mission finally gets underway, Wilmore and Williams will fly to the International Space Station...
在5月6日发射前两小时,工程师们发现阿特拉斯5号火箭第二级或上部的一个阀门出现了问题。阿特拉斯5号火箭是由波音和洛克希德马丁的合资企业联合发射联盟(United launch Alliance)制造的。包括火箭和航天器在内的整个堆栈都从发射台滚回进行测试和维修。 团队还解决了航天器服务舱内的一个小氦泄漏问题,这是推进系统的...
Boeing's first Starliner spacecraft to carry astronauts stands atop its Atlas V rocket at Space Launch Complex 41 of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on June 1, 2024. (Image credit: NASA TV) NASA, Boeing and Atlas V rocket builder United Launch Alliance did have an opportunity...