Thruster Failed! Boeing Starliner is finally Back Home, but 'No More Future'

Thruster Failed! Boeing Starliner is finally Back Home, but 'No More Future"
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Thruster Failed! Boeing Starliner is finally Back Home, but 'No More Future".
Finally TOUCHED DOWN!
At 12 AM ET on Saturday, 9 September, Boeing Star liner landed safely at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, ending 12 weeks in space.
Despite what was deemed a safe re-entry, as we can see, propulsion issues on the Star liner continue to persist.
So, should we consider this a successful landing of the vehicle?
Find out everything in today's Techmap episode.
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Thruster Failed! Boeing Starliner is finally Back Home, but 'No More Future".
At 6:04 PM EDT on September 6, Boeing’s uncrewed Star liner spacecraft was undocked from the International Space Station.
Engineers used Calypso's forward thrusters, avoiding the problematic thrusters that had previously malfunctioned. As a result, the undocking process went quite smoothly, except that as Star liner was backing away from the station, one of the thrusters did not fire as expected. In Nasa's words, although this means a slight loss of redundancy, it shouldn't keep Star liner from getting through reentry and landing as expected.
About four hours after Undocking, mission control confirmed Star liner had completed its deorbit burn and jettisoned its service module to burn up over the Pacific Ocean.
Star liner's crew module, without its crew, continued to fly by itself, heading for a landing in New Mexico.
Thruster Failed! Boeing Starliner is finally Back Home, but 'No More Future".
To avoid any potential risk, the Star liner crew module uses a different set of thrusters from those that caused trouble during Star liner's flight.
But another problem happened as one of the 12 control thrusters on the crew module failed in a test earlier in the evening. A single thruster failure isn't expected to be an issue for entry.
Luckily, at 12:00 AM ET on Saturday, Star liner landed at the White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico. NASA astronauts Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williams will remain onboard the International Space Station as members of Expedition 71/72 before their return onboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft no earlier than February 2025.
Despite being deemed to be a safe landing, as we can see, there are still thruster problems that happened during the journey. Nasa might have predicted these problems, thus, Star liner’s departure from the station was set to be different from what was originally planned when it would have astronauts on board.
The spacecraft would make a relatively rapid departure from the vicinity of the station, called a “breakout burn,” rather than a more gradual separation that would include a flyaround of the station.

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[DThrills]

I wouldn't trust a Boeing bicycle.

[Badboy]

Did they monitor the crew cabin areas during the return? Yes, they got a junk car home, but if people were inside it, would they of made the return trip? It didn't crash, yes! But would it sustain life?

[davideberhardt]

I watched the Apollo missions as a kid and was amazed. Nasa and Boeing have gone backwards, big time. Shocking to see us slip this badly.

[WilliamRoschewski]

The crew was originally scheduled for about a week. Now they are going to remain in space for about 8 months. How about locking all the executives involved in this fiasco in a mockup until the crew returns safely.

[iamstxndby]

You can't play the "we're testing the thrusters and continue to learn how to do better for the future" card on an actual live mission 😂 ALL of that learning and testing should have been done before any human was even allowed set foot in the craft for a real mission tbh.

[neilalexander]

So two more thrusters failed on the way back. It's not surprising, what is surprising is throwing more money at this. When you can't learn from your mistakes you are doomed to failure. ☠

[jmsequip]

I might be wrong but it looked like starliner landed kinda hard. I don’t think I would want to be in it.

[Ken-srjo]

Thruster problems? Thrusters have been essential since the beginning to line up space craft for docking and reentry. The thruster technology has been around for over half a century. It’s like Boeing is trying to reinvent the wheel that has been around thousands of years. Talk about incompetency on a problem that shouldn’t even exist.

[youngfossil]

Voyager 1, with technology that's more than 40 years old, can still use its thrusters.

[glennet]

But on the plus side none of the doors fell off.

[michaell]

It was only supposed to be a three hour three hour tour. (IYKYK)

[camelot]

Great 5 Billion "Test" from NASA - the Taxpayer must be honored ✌

[clint]

Has the FAA space div. grounded NASA / Boeing?

[robertherzog]

Why isn't the FAA investigating the Starliner malfunctions before they are allowed to fly again? This had the potential to cause 1) loss of the astronaut crew in the Starliner, 2) damage to the ISS (which is more severe than a gopher turtle's home), and 3) loss of the entire ISS crew. I'm sure if this was a Dragon capsule, it would be grounded for an extensive period.

[robertpitman]

NASA has to have some courage and cancel this contract.

[teacher_of_the_arcane]

I appreciate the up-date on the Starliner saga, but really didn't need the re-hash of the multi-million dollar problems over the past several years.

[kenwhitfield]

Testing redundancy in a real scenario should only be required in a test, not an actual flight. After the two shuttle disasters, NASA was placed on the hook by Boeing to exercise their authority to do the right thing, and err on the side of safety to avoid another similar disaster. A position they actually placed themselves in too by decide to launch Starliner Calypso with helium leaks in the first place. Proving that a manned vehicle has sufficient redundancy to keep the astronauts safe is important. For sure. But, this flight was supposed to be an attempt to certify that Starliner could accomplish the crew transportation mission in a non-emergency mode, with no ambiguities about the success of the mission. Instead, we got nearly three months of anxious indignation about the safety of the vehicle. It should have been quite apparent that NASA would not increase the risk, after deciding to launch a faulty spacecraft to the ISS in June that they would take even a calculated risk bringing the astronauts home on a spacecraft with known problems, thus twisting the fickle finger of fait a second time. Knowing all of Boeing’s issues, it just wasn’t prudent to give them another chance to get things wrong with the crew onboard a faulty spacecraft. Boeing should be appropriately humbled by this whole incident and count their lucky stars that nothing else went wrong during the return to Earth. Now, they should be humbled enough to fix their damned spacecraft this time. There is an age old edict attributed to Will Rogers that is appropriate for all mankind’s great endeavors that has been learned and relearned time and ago over the years, “good judgement comes from experience. unfortunately, the experience comes from bad judgement.”

[olafbaeyens]

It amazes me that they still use 1990's graphics to show the location of Starliner.

[davidboivin]

Boeing Starliner is still crawling, trying to take its first baby steps. SpaceX Crew Dragon is power walking and ready to start marathons.

[jptrainor]

The Boeing chief accountant will be thrilled. These redundant thrusters can now be removed!