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Boeing losses on Starliner increase by $250 million (spacenews.com)

submitted 1 week ago by threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works to c/spaceflight@sh.itjust.works

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[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 week ago (1 children)

They’d have to do back to backs, which NASA doesn’t seem interested in.

Why would NASA have an issue with this?

[–] burble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I probably misremembered/misrepresented that. NASA would actually have to book more SpaceX flights to not have Starliner go back-to-back at this point.

The bigger question might be what Boeing's refurb/turnaround time is, and whether they can even prep one of their two vehicles and a new service module in 5 months to support a back-to-back.

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago

Ah, I see. I hadn't though of the launch cadence challenge from Boeing's side, but I can see how it could be an issue.