JAKARTA – The Starliner spacecraft was supposed to depart the Worldwide House Station (ISS) on June 25. Nonetheless, this return schedule was once more canceled by NASA and Boeing.
The Starliner return schedule nonetheless needs to be canceled as a result of NASA technicians haven’t completed investigating the issue with the propulsion system. With this resolution made, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will keep longer on the ISS.
To date, NASA has canceled the scheduled return of Starliner 4 occasions. Nonetheless, in contrast to the three earlier delays, NASA solely revealed that Starliner and its crew can be despatched house in early July.
“We (we) are evaluating the potential of a future return of the spacecraft after a spacewalk scheduled for July 2, the second of a pair of spacewalks within the remark of the ISS,” stated NASA, quoted by Spacenews.
In the meantime, NASA Business Crew Program Supervisor Steve Sew stated engineers had been attempting to comply with mission administration group requirements. They proceed to look and discover options to helium leak and thrust efficiency issues.
“We let the info information our choices about managing the small system helium leaks and thrust efficiency we noticed throughout rendezvous and docking,” defined Sew.
Nonetheless, with technicians having restricted time, NASA will conduct an agency-wide evaluation to expedite concepts. That is performed in order that Starliner is not going to keep greater than a month on the ISS.
2024-06-22 04:03:00
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