Boe OFT repeat
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| Mission: | (no name yet) | ||
| Spacecraft: | CST-100 Starliner | ||
| Launcher: | Atlas V (N22) | ||
| Crew: | no | ||
| Begin: | December 2020 | ||
| Starting place: | Cape Canaveral Air Force Station , SLC-41 | ||
| Space station: | ISS | ||
| Landing: | |||
| Flight duration: | about 7 days | ||
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The repetition of the Boe-OFT mission is a planned unmanned test flight of the new US spacecraft CST-100 Starliner . The spacecraft operator Boeing and NASA as the client agreed on this repeat mission after several serious software errors had occurred on the first attempt in December 2019 . The flight is scheduled for December 2020.
The Boe OFT Repeat Mission is one of several Starliner missions taking place as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program .
financing
Boeing made in the financial statements in 2019 a provision of 410 million US dollars for the troubleshooting and the repetition flight. At that time, the company's financial situation was already strained due to technical defects in the 737 MAX aircraft ; From March 2020, it worsened due to the aviation crisis triggered by the Covid 19 pandemic .
Mission history
The planned course of the repeat mission Boe-OFT is as follows:
The CST-100 Starliner will be launched with an Atlas-V launcher from the SLC-41 launch pad at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida . The launch vehicle takes the spacecraft to a suborbital orbit at an altitude of 180 kilometers, from where it flies on its own to the International Space Station at an altitude of around 400 kilometers. It docks there automatically for a week-long stay. At the end of the mission, the Starliner's re-entry capsule lands in a desert in the southwestern United States.
Web links
- Marie Lewis: Boeing to Fly Second Uncrewed Orbital Flight Test for NASA . NASA, April 6, 2020
- Stephen Clark: After problem-plagued test flight, Boeing will refly crew capsule without astronauts . Spaceflight Now, April 6, 2020
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Launch Schedule. Spaceflight Now, accessed August 29, 2020 .
- ↑ Boeing to fly second Starliner uncrewed test flight . Spacenews, April 6, 2020.
- ^ Boeing Reports Fourth-Quarter Results . Boeing, January 29, 2020.
- ↑ Boeing customers cancel staggering 150 Max plane orders, deepening crisis as coronavirus roils air travel . CNBC, April 14, 2020.
- ^ Atlas V to Launch Starliner. United Launch Alliance, accessed August 25, 2019 .
- ↑ Chris Gebhardt: Twitter report from a NASA presentation on October 30, 2019.