#boeing starliner

[lonestarflight]

At this point, might as well.

(in all seriousness, I wish Boeing would get their shit together.)

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[dduane]

(growling) Oh FFS. 🫤

[frogblast-the-ventcore]

Fucking hell, everything Boeing makes these days is literally cursed.

[beardedmrbean]

[unitedfrontvarietyhour]

I take it all 12 of you that closely follow me have noticed my relative absence...I am alive, and I am (mostly) okay. Work is doing its best to slowly kill me thru attrition. Needless to say, I may be on here less as work keeps this pace. But I shall never surrender! I continue to work on new videos and cruise the meme rivers for content whenever I can, and rest assured...I'm not done yet.

Til we meet again, comrades. Communism to all, and to all a good night.

[rednblacksalamander]

[blueiscoool]

Boeing Launches First Crewed Starliner Spacecraft

Starliner has lifted off on its historic maiden voyage, carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams toward the International Space Station.

The launch marks only the sixth inaugural journey of a crewed spacecraft in US history.

[floridaboiler]

[transhuman-priestess]

Thesis: there was a Jebediah Kerman plush on the uncrewed and successful Orbital Test Flight-2 of the Boeing Starliner

Antithesis: there was no Jebediah Kerman plush on the either unsuccessful Orbital Test Flight-1 or the unsucessful Crewed Test Flight of the Boeing Starliner

Synthesis: Jebediah is the ultimate space pilot even in plush form and should be on every crewed flight from now on.

[epically-epic-epicosity]

Some are saying that it's an alarm somewhere that's being distorted by the pressurized capsule/capsule framework. Regardless, imagine sitting up there, helpless, with that going on 24/7.

End up like this guy:

[existennialmemes]

"Astronaut who has been stranded in space due to a faulty spacecraft, develops eye condition due to overexposure to microgravity, and is not due to be rescued until February of next year."

Is a hell of a dystopian news story. Like. This sounds like the plotline to a B list sci fi thriller from 2006, not literally current events.

They wanna do luxury space travel missions, but they can't manage to rescue this astronaut (and her co-worker) from space before NEXT YEAR??

What an unconscionable fucking farce.

[lonestarflight]

"The Starliner Calypso spacecraft on NASA's Boeing Crew Flight Test approaches the International Space Station while orbiting 263 miles above Quebec, Canada. NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard Starliner would dock to the orbital outpost's forward port on the Harmony module at 1:34 p.m. EDT on Thursday, June 6."

Date: June 6, 2024

NASA ID: iss071e171112

[spitbruise]

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[spacefrontier]

The Crew 9 delay is relevant to the Starliner dilemma for a couple of reasons. One, it gives NASA more time to determine the flight-worthiness of Starliner. However, there is also another surprising reason for the delay—the need to update Starliner’s flight software. Three separate, well-placed sources have confirmed to Ars that the current flight software on board Starliner cannot perform an automated undocking from the space station and entry into Earth’s atmosphere. At first blush, this seems absurd. After all, Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test 2 mission in May 2022 was a fully automated test of the Starliner vehicle. During this mission, the spacecraft flew up to the space station without crew on board and then returned to Earth six days later. Although the 2022 flight test was completed by a different Starliner vehicle, it clearly demonstrated the ability of the program's flight software to autonomously dock and return to Earth. Boeing did not respond to a media query about why this capability was removed for the crew flight test. It is not clear what change Boeing officials made to the vehicle or its software in the two years prior to the launch of Wilmore and Williams. It is possible that the crew has to manually press an undock button in the spacecraft, or the purely autonomous software was removed from coding on board Starliner to simplify its software package. Regardless, sources described the process to update the software on Starliner as "non-trivial" and "significant," and that it could take up to four weeks. This is what is driving the delay to launch Crew 9 later next month.

[beardedmrbean]

lol

[victusinveritas]

On the upside, maybe someone other than Boeing will rescue them. It would increase the odds of their survival by at least 65%...until they are on the ground and away from witnesses. In space, no one can hear you blow your whistle.