Posted on 12/20/2019 8:24:33 AM PST by BenLurkin
Boeing's Starliner astronaut taxi suffered an anomaly today (Dec. 20) during its flight to the International Space Station during the Orbital Flight Test (OFT) mission.
About 90 minutes after blastoff, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said on Twitter that the capsule will not be able to reach the space station because it burned too much fuel during the anomaly.
The Atlas V rocket from United Launch Alliance successfully launched from Space Launch Complex 41 here at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 6:36 a.m. EST (1136 GMT) as planned. But, as of about an hour after launch, the mission team had announced an anomaly with the uncrewed capsule's orbit.
About 15 minutes after launch, Starliner was scheduled to complete a 40-second orbital insertion burn that would have evened out its orbit to a circle, allowing it to meet up with the space station. But this stage in the flight was off-nominal...
"After launching successfully at 6:36 a.m. Eastern Time Friday on the United Launch Alliance Atlas v rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, the Boeing Starliner space vehicle experienced an off-nominal insertion," Boeing spokesperson Kelly Kaplan told reporters here at the press site.
"The spacecraft is currently in safe, stable configuration," Kaplan added. "Flight controllers have completed a successful initial burn and are assessing next steps. Boeing and NASA are working together to review options for the test and mission opportunities available while the Starliner remains in orbit. A joint news conference will be held at 9 a.m. Eastern on NASA TV."
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Boeing needs to do something about itself finally.
This fish stinks from the head.
More Boeing mess up. I bet the C-Suite will look very different real soon.
At least the ‘taxi’ is without passengers just yet.
The launch looked flawless.
Just curious, does Boeing still hire engineers?
"Prepare three envelopes"
Whoops
Ok, so they can’t make things that work properly, but you can be sure that they are multicultural and diverse.
“I bet the C-Suite will look very different real soon.”
Nah. They’re all buddies. Boeing is an extreme left-wing democrat company where no one is ever held accountable.
“Just curious, does Boeing still hire engineers?”
Well... depends, do you mean accomplished engineers, or do you mean engineers who fill the appropriate boxes to achieve diversity?
And yet the Russians can consistantly get there, using 30 year old technology at one third the cost...
I bet not many American-born, and a whole helluva lot foreign visa engineers, including mohammedans!
Wait until word of this gets out. Somebody at NASA is gonna get one heck of a lecture.
“Prepare three envelopes”
Great joke
Yeah, and too true!
They need to pull into a gas station.
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