CST-100 STARLINER: Boeing's 2nd Orbital Flight Test | News Blurb

Boeing and NASA are ready to fly CST-100 Starliner’s 2nd uncrewed Orbital Flight Test, OFT-2, to the International Space Station to show the spacecraft is ready for people to fly aboard it later this year or early 2022.

Launch is currently scheduled for later in 2021 from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Docking with the ISS is expected a day after liftoff.

This is a delay from early August because of an issue with the vehicle's propulsion system as well as range availability in conjunction with ISS docking port availability.

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0:00 Introduction
1:17 Starliner overview
4:18 Atlas 5 N22
6:03 Pad Abort Test
7:07 Orbital Flight Test
8:55 Orbital Flight Test-2
12:00 Closing

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner is the second of two spacecraft NASA selected to help develop as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The other is SpaceX’s Crew Dragon, which has successfully flown people to the International Space Station three times as of this video’s publication.

Starliner comprises two parts: A crew module and a service module. The crew module is a conical shaped capsule with a diameter of 4.6 meters. Combined with the service module, the stack extends to 5 meters.

Overall, the mass of the spacecraft is 13,000 kilograms and has a habitable volume of about 11 cubic meters.

It has a design life of about 60 hours in free flight and around 210 days docked to a space station.

The crew module can hold up to seven people. However, NASA is only expected to ever utilize a four or five-person configuration for regular space station crew rotation missions.

Boeing has said it is willing to sell the extra fifth seat to potential commercial and government-sponsored astronauts or even spaceflight participants.

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Are you excited to see Starliner fly again, and do you think its development problems are over? Let me know in the comments below!


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[FeatherSpace]

Always watching your videos! Your content is very awesome, the animations, the launch profile. I hope you got more subscribers!!

[brett]

I'm shocked at your low sub number. Your videos are of much higher quality than many other "space" channel's. Keep up the good work. Your channel will be found. If people found those other channel's, you'll definitely be found.

[PhilipsChris]

Nasa definitely needs that redundancy, and let be honest, we all want to see more types of spacecraft reaching orbit.

[calc]

Starliner has station-keeping capabilities that Dragon lacks. So Starliner will give the US station-keeping capabilities with respect to the ISS. That's the only reason I'm looking forward to a successful debut.

[WWeronko]

That was a nice generic Starliner (CST-100) up date. Perhaps you should have mentioned some additional information like a NASA audit estimated that the per-seat cost of the SpaceX Crew Dragon comes to $55 million while Boeing's Starliner is estimated at $90 million. Soyuz prices ranged from a low of approximately $21.3 million to the $90.3 million a seat for its last NASA flight. Boeing is doing NASA no financial favors. Besides Boeing's US$4.2 billion contract to complete and certify the Starliner (compared to SpaceX's US$2.6 billion contract to complete and certify their crewed Dragon spacecraft), NASA paid Boeing nearly $300 million more than originally planned in its commercial crew contract in part because of agency concerns that the company might drop out of the program. Moreover, NASA’s Office of Inspector General, reported NASA’s payed an additional $144 million to accelerate the timetable. Now Boeing is years late for a grossly over priced spacecraft. It is hard to get enthusiastic about the Starliner.

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This guy's is reading the script and doesn't seem to have clue what he is talking about 👎😝😵😆