The Starliner mishap was a very minor error and the bulk of the mission’s objectives succeeded, but in that field, minor errors have major implications. This will get fixed by the next launch.
I would think Boeing having to build aircraft with no identified buyers and an unclear route to flight clearance is much more significant to the shareholders.
“will get fixed”?
The fixes for an orbital vehicle is FAR more complicated than a stupid (supposed) software glitch in the 737MAX aircraft... yet they still haven’t really gotten that worked out yet...
“The Starliner mishap was a very minor error and the bulk of the mission’s objectives succeeded, but in that field, minor errors have major implications. This will get fixed by the next launch.”
It will. IIRC, there’s a lot of competition with Lockheed-Martin (Orion) and SpaceX (Dragon) for this. They can’t have too many more screw-ups.
The mission was to take supplies to the Space Station. It failed.
More importantly, it failed for the same reason that the MAX failed. An autonomous control system malfunctioned in flight. The craft should be grounded until a line-by-line review of the software is performed.