Author: Loren Grush
The development of Boeing’s new crew-carrying space capsule, the CST-100 Starliner, hit a roadblock last month. The company experienced an undisclosed “anomaly” in June when conducting a test of the Starliner’s launch abort engines — the key hardware that could help save the spacecraft in case of an emergency. Boeing says it has figured out what went wrong, but it’s unclear if this will delay the first milestone flights of the vehicle moving forward.
The Starliner is the spacecraft that Boeing has been developing over the last decade as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. It’s designed to take the space agency’s astronauts to and from the International Space Station, though the vehicle’s launch abort engines are manufactured by...
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The development of Boeing’s new crew-carrying space capsule, the CST-100 Starliner, hit a roadblock last month. The company experienced an undisclosed “anomaly” in June when conducting a test of the Starliner’s launch abort engines — the key hardware that could help save the spacecraft in case of an emergency. Boeing says it has figured out what went wrong, but it’s unclear if this will delay the first milestone flights of the vehicle moving forward.
The Starliner is the spacecraft that Boeing has been developing over the last decade as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. It’s designed to take the space agency’s astronauts to and from the International Space Station, though the vehicle’s launch abort engines are manufactured by...
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