NASA announced late Tuesday that it was no longer aiming for a Saturday launch opportunity of a pair of astronauts aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner as teams discuss a helium leak found on th…
The countdown clock at Kennedy Space Center’s press site sports the Boeing CST-100 Starliner logo for its Crew Test Flight mission awaiting launch from neighboring Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — NASA announced late Tuesday that it was no longer aiming for a Saturday launch of a pair of astronauts aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner as teams discuss a helium leak found on the spacecraft.
It’s another in a series of delays to get the first crewed launch of the Starliner spacecraft off the ground. NASA’s Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams were strapped in and ready to fly when teams scrubbed an attempt back on May 6 because of a valve issue with United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V upper stage.
With it off the pad, and in ULA’s Vertical Integration Facility at SLC-41, a deeper dive has been taken to assess the risk of the leak, which was traced to a flange on one of the reaction control system thrusters within one of the four engine compartments of Starliner’s service module. SpaceX has been flying its Crew Dragon spacecraft since May 2020 to the ISS while Boeing has had to undergo major software, hardware and management changed to the Starliner program putting Boeing now four years behind.
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