NASA has officially Paid Launch The agency has announced that its Orbital Flight-Test 2 will be tested through next year while continuing to work on an oxidative isolation valve problem aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft.
The agency said in a Blogpost It continues to evaluate potential launch windows for the mission: “The team is currently working on capabilities in the first half of 2022 pending instrument readiness, rocket manifest and space station availability,” the publication said.
Steve Stitch, director of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, added that this is a “complex problem” affecting hard-to-reach areas of the spacecraft, and that a “systematic approach and sound engineering is needed to investigate them effectively.”
Boeing’s Starliner is one of two vehicles designed to carry passengers to and from the International Space Station as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. SpaceX Crew Dragon is another. NASA required each company to launch an unmanned test flight, followed by a manned test flight as part of the process. So far, Starliner has made one flight without a crew, but it has suffered Softwareproblemen before it reaches the International Space Station.
Boeing hoped to fly a Starliner With no passengers in the summer on a second attempt at an unmanned flight but hours before takeoff, the company discovered problems with some Spacecraft thrust valves NASA canceled the launch
earlier this week, NASA Announces It’s Reassigning Astronauts who would instead fly the upcoming Starliner flights to the next SpaceX flight. Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada fly on SpaceX’s fifth manned mission to the International Space Station, currently scheduled for fall 2022.
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