Boeing Starliner

It has been stacked onto its Atlas V launcher.
 
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✅ The Launch Readiness Review is complete. Teams are “go” for @NASA's @BoeingSpace Orbital Flight Test-2 launch – set to lift off at 6:54pm ET on Thursday, May 19. Currently, weather is 70% favorable.

Join us at 12pm ET for the prelaunch news briefing: nasa.gov/live
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NASA’s Steve Stich says no issues being worked by NASA, Boeing or ULA for the OFT-2 launch on Thursday. Vehicle rolling to the pad tomorrow.
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Boeing’s Mark Nappi: did one more cycle of the Starliner valves yesterday, all operating normally.
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Flyaway said:
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NASA’s Steve Stich says no issues being worked by NASA, Boeing or ULA for the OFT-2 launch on Thursday. Vehicle rolling to the pad tomorrow.
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Boeing’s Mark Nappi: did one more cycle of the Starliner valves yesterday, all operating normally.
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At last some progress for Starliner, let's hope that the Florida weather does not mean that NASA has to postpone the launch or anything unusual happens to the launch vehicle between now and launch day.
 
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#AtlasV is perched atop its Cape Canaveral launch pad for Thursday's #Starliner launch at 6:54pmEDT (2254 UTC).

Live countdown blog begins at 7:30amEDT and launch webcast at 6pmEDT: bit.ly/av_oft-2

@NASA @Commercial_Crew
@BoeingSpace
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Flyaway said:
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#AtlasV is perched atop its Cape Canaveral launch pad for Thursday's #Starliner launch at 6:54pmEDT (2254 UTC).

Live countdown blog begins at 7:30amEDT and launch webcast at 6pmEDT: bit.ly/av_oft-2

@NASA @Commercial_Crew
@BoeingSpace
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I am going to watch the launch live on NASA TV, it should be a 12:00PM launch BST here in the UK if all goes to plan.
 
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Thursday's precise liftoff time has been established for #AtlasV to send #Starliner capsule on its journey to the @Space_Station. Based on latest calculations of when the station's orbital plane passes over the pad, launch will occur at 6:54:47 p.m. EDT (2254:47 UTC).
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Thursday's precise liftoff time has been established for #AtlasV to send #Starliner capsule on its journey to the @Space_Station. Based on latest calculations of when the station's orbital plane passes over the pad, launch will occur at 6:54:47 p.m. EDT (2254:47 UTC).
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So they have adjusted the lift off from the pad to be 6:54:47pm to coincide with the space stations orbital plane passes overhead, it will be interesting to see if it will work out okay. The launch window will be extremely tight to say the least, let's hope for clear sky's for Thursday.
 
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The Crew Access Arm has been extended to the #Starliner and #AtlasV stack at Space Launch Complex-41. Pad and operations teams will conduct final checks before tomorrow's 6:54 p.m. ET launch.

Watch the launch here: boeing.com/space/starline…
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Fueling of the #AtlasV first stage is underway at Space Launch Complex-41. The launch team is pumping 25,000 gallons of storable, room-temperature RP-1 fuel, a highly refined kerosene, into the rocket for Thursday's #Starliner launch. bit.ly/av_oft-2

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The launch pad crew has completed its hands-on work to ready Space Launch Complex-41 for the #AtlasV mission. After fueling is completed, the specially-trained Blue Team will be allowed to return to the #Starliner crew module. Liftoff remains scheduled for 6:54pmEDT (2254 UTC).
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Orbital Insertion Burn Complete

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Orbital Insertion Burn Complete

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View: https://twitter.com/BoeingSpace/status/1527446692248883200

View: https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1527456514545487872
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Excellent news for Starliner, hope the docking with the station goes as smoothly as the lift off.
 
Via NSF:

Some further details about the OMAC thruster failures:

During the OI burn, we had two thrusters failed: the first one was head-fired, it fired for one second, and then it shut down. Flight control system did what it was supposed to, it turned it over to the second thruster, it fired for about 25 seconds, and then it shut down. Again, the flight control system did what it was supposed to, took over and went to a third thruster, and we had a successful orbital insertion. So, the system is designed to be redundant and it performed like it was supposed to. Now the team is working the 'why', as to why these anomalies occurred.
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NC-1 burn went well subsequently.

And about the sublimator:

During ascent and transition on orbit there's a device called the sublimator, which flashes water into space to cool the S/C. That was a little sluggish initially during ascent and coming up to cooling. It uses an ice block to sort of reject heat, but once we got on orbit it's working just fine.
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Nice of them to test the fallbacks. But come on, two failures in the same OMAC thruster group? That's just embarrassing.
 
Let's hope Starliner don't pull a Nauka on the ISS... "how about a looping, folks !"
 
It has lost a couple of thrusters but it is not really serious.
 
Michel Van said:
ok they manage to get to ISS

but i have one complain, only one
why is the internal of Starliner looks like a industrial waste land ?
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to compare Crew Dragon 2001 vibes
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I think at least the loose yellow cabling is probably due to some temporary test/recording equipment. But if that utilitarian look in general puts you off, congratulations that you are not a crew member on a nuclear submarine, or the ISS, for that matter :). In my view though, the term "industrial waste land" should be reserved for places like the Azovstal steel plant. Otherwise I strongly recommend to watch and listen to:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwvlbJ0h35A
 
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It’s wonderful to see astronauts inside the #Starliner spacecraft @Space_Station for the first time! Great job to the @NASA & @BoeingSpace teams that worked so diligently to make this a reality. It’s a thrilling moment for a new spacecraft that is getting ready to fly crew.
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#Starliner has entered a planned quiescent phase while docked to the @space_station, which means its systems were powered down just like they would be during a long-duration mission.

: @AstroSamantha
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Starliner Lands, Successfully Completing OFT-2​


May 25, 2022

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Starliner lands at 6:47 PM ET at White Sands Space Harbor (Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls).


At 6:49 p.m. ET, Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft landed at its designated landing zone at the White Sands Space Harbor on the U.S. Army’s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. Starliner completed all of its deorbit, reentry and landing maneuvers, bringing Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) to a successful conclusion.
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Starliner Lands, Successfully Completing OFT-2

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So what next for Starliner? After a successful landing at it’s designated landing zone at White Sands, I wonder what the future is going to be for Starliner, I hope that there is going to be many more missions for Boeing’s capsule.
 
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NASA’s Steve Stich in a post-landing briefing says systems “performed great” on Starliner; once go through data will be ready to fly crew on the vehicle.
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Stich: don’t see any reason why we can’t proceed to Crew Flight Test next. No showstoppers this time relative to last time.
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Stich: performance of OFT-2 “very similar run lots of ways” to Crew Dragon Demo-1. Had major redesign of propulsion system and redesign of parachutes between Demo-1 and 2; not case here.
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View: https://twitter.com/jeff_foust/status/1529634937300602880


Boeing’s Mark Nappi: none of thruster issues look serious. May need to do some offline tests, but more optimistic that we’ll be to explain these and move on.

[Also recommend a fault tree analysis of the phone bridge for the briefing…]
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