NASA postpones do-over test launch of Boeing Starliner to orbit
The Hindu
A previous uncrewed Starliner test launch to orbit in 2019 ended with a nearly catastrophic failure of the spacecraft to dock with the space station.
NASA and Boeing have postponed an attempt to launch the company’s CST-100 Starliner capsule to the International Space Station (ISS) as planned on Friday after Russian cosmonauts aboard the orbital outpost reported a problem with a newly docked module. The Starliner launch delay was announced by NASA on Thursday, a day before the Starliner was due for blastoff from the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida atop a Boeing Lockheed Martin Corp Atlas V rocket. A previous uncrewed Starliner test launch to orbit in 2019 ended with a nearly catastrophic failure of the spacecraft to dock with the space station.More Related News

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