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NASA likely to significantly delay the launch of Crew 9 due to Starliner issues (arstechnica.com)

submitted 3 months ago by llamacoffee@lemmy.world to c/spaceflight@sh.itjust.works

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[–] toast@retrolemmy.com 22 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (5 children)

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.

Just...unbelievable

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That is wild if true. I was expecting an undisclosed, embarrassing hardware issue (unrelated to the thruster problem) causing the delay… but it might be the software? Yikes.

[–] toast@retrolemmy.com 8 points 3 months ago

Yeah, and the estimate is for the update to take 4 weeks? Didn't Boeing do an inflight update on the landing software on OFT-1?

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