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A May 6 countdown was halted just two hours before launch time over a faulty pressure valve on the Atlas V upper stage, followed by weeks of further delays caused by other engineering problems ...
The US space agency said on Wednesday that the latest delay was a result of a helium leak in the Boeing Starliner’s service module. The new launch date is 1 June, with back-up dates on 5 June ...
(Reuters) - Boeing and NASA said on Sunday that their teams are preparing to launch the new Starliner space capsule on June 5 after scrubbing its inaugural test flight launch attempt on Saturday.
Boeing’s last launch attempt on May 6 was also called off, that time with roughly two hours remaining in the countdown, after an issue with a valve was detected in the spacecraft’s Atlas V rocket.
Work on the Starliner spacecraft inside Boeing's production facility was completed on 15 April, and the spacecraft was moved to the launch pad and stacked on top the Atlas V rocket the following day. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] [ 24 ] The crew arrived at Kennedy Space Center on 25 April, [ 25 ] and on the same day the mission concluded its Flight Test ...
Starliner’s first flight carrying astronauts was expected as soon as May 21 after two previous delays this month, but mission teams need more time to “work through spacecraft closeout ...
Boeing Starliner-1, also called Post Certification Mission-1 (PCM-1), is the name of the first operational crewed mission of the Boeing Starliner to the International Space Station (ISS) as part of the Commercial Crew Program. It was originally planned as the first Starliner mission following the Starliner Crewed flight test (CFT). [4]
Boeing CST-100 Starliner for OFT-2 Arrives at SLC-41. On 9 December 2020, NASA and Boeing announced that 29 March 2021 was the targeted launch date for the OFT-2 mission. [14] [11] On 16 December 2020, Boeing officials released the official mission patch for the Orbital Flight Test-2 mission.