Posted on 05/23/2022 5:10:48 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Boeing managed to dock a spacecraft at the International Space Station late last week, but it was not without several minor hangups.
The mission kicked off Thursday evening with a Florida launch, and the Starliner — which is designed to carry astronauts but is flying without people for this test — docked with the ISS Friday night at 8:28 pm ET. The docking occurred about an hour later than expected as ground crews worked through a few issues, including a software issue that skewed graphics, sort of like a misaligned GPS map. There were also issues with sensors and some docking components that were not initially moving correctly. The capsule has a docking ring that pops out as it approaches its port and is used to latch on to the ISS. During the first attempt at docking, some components didn't move into the proper configuration. Ground teams had to try the pop-out process a second time to get everything in the right place. There had also been a small problem with the Starliner's cooling loops, which are part of the system that regulates the spacecraft's temperature.
All those issues had to be analyzed or fixed in time for the Starliner to move ahead, and the docking ultimately went off without a major issue.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
You car does that all the time and occasionally you get a check engine light. But, most of the time, you never know it.
“That is why it’s an unscrewed test flight, workout bugs,”
I don’t think you get it. Unmanned flights are to “prove” the spacecraft, not “work out bugs.” They don’t move on to manned flights until they get the unmanned flights right. They did not get this one right. At the very least, they’ll have to have another unmanned test flight.
Thats what you get for $9 /hr
Lol, it just docked with the international space station.
Intel Automatic Fan Speed Control?
Boeing should not have assigned 737 production & maintenance specialists to the Starliner contract?
Those were solved 2 years ago.
CC
Sounds like the Starliner is a piece of trash.
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It would seem that Spacex is leaps and bounds ahead of Boeing on the crewed vessel front.
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That’s why it is so important to get the Starliner right. Once working, SpaceX contracts will be cancelled.
That will put the finishing touch on SpaceX and the Starship. Then its just a matter of regulation to push Tesla over the same cliff. The much hated Musk will be gone.
“This test should have been perfect.”
Bull****. You don’t test if you don’t expect bugs.
A lot of arm chair engineers in here that don’t know cr*p.
You don’t test fly it if you expect zero bugs. This level of ‘failure’ is in line with what can be considerd success. Every finding minor and fixable.
Do I know what I am talking about? I am literally at a flight test right now. Actually siting in a lab waiting for the flight to land so we can pull the data. So yeah, I know something about flight testing.
i get it far more then you do.. dont be condescending
by Indian programmers.. yakes... LOL
now boeing goes back and makes fixes to the service module
Uninformed and biased.
“i get it far more then you do.. dont be condescending”
He says as he condescends, and butchers the English language.
Watch. See what NASA and Boeing do next....
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