The first piloted launch of Boeing's oft-delayed Starliner crew capsule is slipping to next March at the earliest because of ongoing work to test and replace the capsule's parachute system.
crew capsule is slipping to next March at the earliest because of ongoing work to test and replace the capsule's parachute system and to resolve issues with a flammable adhesive used in protective electrical tape, officials said Monday.
A Starliner capsule and its service module during processing at Boeing's assembly hangar at the Kennedy Space Center before an earlier unpiloted test flight ."What I know everybody would like is launch date," said Steve Stich, manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program."The vehicle will be ready in the March timeframe. ... March is typically the month where the Russians will swap out their Soyuz spacecraft and crews.
Despite the late start and high costs of the delays, Nappi said Boeing remains committed to the Starliner. In 2014, NASA awarded Boeing and SpaceX contracts valued at a combined $6.8 billion to build commercial crew ships that could carry NASA and partner-agency astronauts to and from the space station in the wake of the space shuttle's retirement. The contracts covered up to six flights per company, plus one crewed and one uncrewed test flight.
and the Starliner robotically docked with the space station as planned and safely returned to a parachute-assisted touchdown in Utah. At that point, NASA was aiming for a piloted launch late last year. Boeing has now opted to replace the soft links with an improved version and to go ahead and install an upgraded parachute system that was meant to be added after the CFT mission. The parachute changes will require a"drop test" in November to make sure the system performs as expected. If all goes well, the flight parachutes will be delivered to Boeing in December.
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