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>Boeing’s Starliner problems worse than previously thought
>Big government "science" fails dramatically again
>"Not worth 1% of whats spent on it"
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/boeings-starliner-problems-may-be-worse-than-we-thought/
On Friday, officials from NASA and Boeing held a teleconference with reporters to discuss issues related to the Starliner spacecraft's performance during an orbital test flight in December.
Although an independent review team remains in the midst of an investigation that will not conclude until the end of February, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said he convened the call in the "interest of transparency."
FURTHER READING
Starliner faced “catastrophic” failure before software bug found
The call followed an explosive revelation on Thursday, at a meeting of NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, that the Starliner spacecraft encountered a second major software issue that could have resulted in a total loss of the vehicle. At the outset of the media call, Bridenstine acknowledged that Starliner's flight had "a lot of anomalies." The agency published a summary here. At this point, it seems that NASA and Boeing do not yet know what they don't know about the problems, and it will take some time to sort all of this out.
Software problems
The first software error was well reported in the immediate aftermath of Starliner's launch. The spacecraft captured the wrong "mission elapsed time" from its Atlas V launch vehicle—it was supposed to pick up this time during the terminal phase of the countdown, but instead it grabbed data 11 hours off of the correct time.
>Boeing’s Starliner problems worse than previously thought
>Big government "science" fails dramatically again
>"Not worth 1% of whats spent on it"
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/boeings-starliner-problems-may-be-worse-than-we-thought/
On Friday, officials from NASA and Boeing held a teleconference with reporters to discuss issues related to the Starliner spacecraft's performance during an orbital test flight in December.
Although an independent review team remains in the midst of an investigation that will not conclude until the end of February, NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said he convened the call in the "interest of transparency."
FURTHER READING
Starliner faced “catastrophic” failure before software bug found
The call followed an explosive revelation on Thursday, at a meeting of NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel, that the Starliner spacecraft encountered a second major software issue that could have resulted in a total loss of the vehicle. At the outset of the media call, Bridenstine acknowledged that Starliner's flight had "a lot of anomalies." The agency published a summary here. At this point, it seems that NASA and Boeing do not yet know what they don't know about the problems, and it will take some time to sort all of this out.
Software problems
The first software error was well reported in the immediate aftermath of Starliner's launch. The spacecraft captured the wrong "mission elapsed time" from its Atlas V launch vehicle—it was supposed to pick up this time during the terminal phase of the countdown, but instead it grabbed data 11 hours off of the correct time.
