Posted on 12/20/2019 3:01:28 AM PST by Monty22002
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K82CRHDT1wc
*another Starliner ping*
SpaceX sure has Boeing beat on launch coverage, live video from the vehicle, etc.
And the Boeing control room looks to need ~2.5X the number of people SpaceX does!
I’m not a huge Elon Musk fan, but I’m even less of a arthritic old-school wasteful government contractor fan....
Is it just me, or did Mission Control look cooler when it was banks of consoles as opposed to a bunch of flat panel monitors?
Now it looks like a Wall Street stockbrokers office...
Off nominal orbit insertion. Could be a big problem.
Stable orbit...but not the one they were shooting for. Not a failure, but not a big vote of confidence either.
CC
If they don’t fix it fast it’ll re-enter and might be in abort mode. If so, look for at least one more test launch needed and SpaceX likely leading if their abort launch goes well in a few weeks.
In the old launch control pictures, the engineers were in their 20’s and 30’s. In today’s picture they are in their 60’s and 70’s—AND they are still wearing neckties!
If it did not achieve the planned orbit, did it not actually fail?
Yes, it failed
Not Good! Boeing’s new Starliner spacecraft is in the wrong orbit during first trip to space
A smooth launch suddenly turned into a bad flight
Another
https://www.space.com/boeing-starliner-oft-fails-to-reach-correct-orbit.html
Lucky no passengers! Seats 7.
They had a booboo, one of many problems associated with the development, this time, burned too long, wound up in the wrong orbit. Close enough for gubmint work.
BA 329.22 -4.25 (1.27%)
Anyone know which Boeing facility it is where most of the Starliner engineering development occurs?
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