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| 10:01 | · | ...this is the mission that keeps on giving. News. It keeps on giving news. Well my friends, we are not |
| 10:07 | · | just having issues with Starliner, but it is also affecting everything that comes down the line. It |
| 10:12 | · | has been docked to the international space station for well over two months now, but you also need |
| 10:17 | · | to remember that there are only two ports that have the International Docking Adapter installed. |
| 10:23 | · | Starliner has been docked on the forward port of the Harmony module since it came in., and |
| 10:28 | · | this may confuse many because the Crew 8 capsule was docked to the same port originally. However |
| 10:34 | · | that was moved from the forward-facing port of the station's Harmony module to its space-facing port |
| 10:38 | · | back at the start of May. The Crew Dragon remains here until it returns, which was supposed to be |
| 10:44 | · | the end of this month. But new information by Eric and ArsTechnica kicked off the week again saying |
| 10:50 | · | it was likely that Crew 9 would be pushed back over a month due to the ongoing saga. Originally |
| 10:55 | · | the plan was for that to be flying on August 18, but no. September 24 became the rumor. Speculation |
| 11:02 | · | that very quickly turned into fact because on Tuesday NASA published the updated timeline |
| 11:07 | · | confirming September 24 as the new target. Indeed Starliner is causing a bunch of unintended |
| 11:14 | · | consequences and certainly associated added costs. Remember, all these missions flow on from each |
| 11:19 | · | other. They need to adjust so that the Crew Dragon rotation with the upcoming Soyuz crew can actually |
| 11:24 | · | occur. Also where they would have launched from Pad 39A, Crew 9 needs to be moved to Space Launch |
| 11:31 | · | Complex 40. Why is that? Well, because otherwise it would cause a conflict with the exciting Europa |
| 11:37 | · | Clipper mission in September. It's also worth noting that to date there has not been a crewed |
| 11:42 | · | launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at all. So yes, there's a lot to consider here. They also |
| 11:48 | · | need a re-adjust SpaceX's 31st commercial resupply services mission as well, so yea, it goes on and |
| 11:54 | · | on. Luckily the conference with NASA mid week at least clarified a bunch of the speculation. Well, |
| 12:00 | · | more confirmed it all really. There are two main options it seems. Return them on Starliner late |
| 12:06 | · | this month after confirming that all is safe, or option 2 which is much more involved. This would |
| 12:12 | · | mean sending the Crew-9 mission with only the two on board rather than 4, and then Buth and |
| 12:17 | · | Suni would join that mission to instead return in February next year. At the same time that would |
| 12:23 | · | mean Starliner needs to return autonomously. Well strangely, even that seems more complex than we |
| 12:29 | · | ever imagined. Starliner is not currently capable of doing it autonomously. What!? That makes no |
| 12:35 | · | sense right? Afterall, the uncrewed mission did all of this reasonably smoothly two years ago, |
| 12:40 | · | autonomously docking, undocking and reentering to be recovered. This is not the case with this new |
| 12:46 | · | Starliner. To actually have this option available will in fact require the software to be installed |
| 12:52 | · | which due to its complexity could take up to 4 weeks. You can't make this stuff up. Anyway, to |
| 12:58 | · | allow either option they needed to push the Crew 9 back to match that timeline... |
