CST-100

[Старый]

Рычажков, кнопок и ручек достаточно. Интересно сравнить пульт управления с "с самым эргономичным" пультом Федерации.

[triage]

Пишут что возить будут и не только НАСА

 https://www.newsmaker.com.au/news/341985/seats-for-sale-as-boeing-launches-star-liner-spacecraft-iac2017#.Wct32Gi0M-V
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Boeing representative, Mr Tony Castilleja details the background to the new spacecraft. "The space shuttle cockpit had over 1,700 switches" he said. "Star Liner has about 60-70 switches". Mr Castilleja said that this was the minimum number of switches necessary for 'safeing' the vehicle. Safeing refers to an emergency situation where an astronaut takes control of the vehicle for a manual docking. "We do that for just in case" said Castilleja. "There is no need for human interaction with the vehicle. Our baseline design is that the vehicle flies itself".

The Starliner series of spacecraft have been designed with a commercial aspect in mind. Four of the five seats on the vehicle will be reserved for NASA astronauts. The fifth is up for grabs. "The fifth seat is open for sale to institutions, universities and other countries" Mr Castilleja said.  "I cannot reveal the price at this time" he said with a smile. "But currently the United States pays Russia 80 million dollars per seat to transport NASA astronauts to the ISS. Star Liner will be less than that and the commercial space market will drive the price down even further".
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Хотя как только за несколько дней не писали 7, 6 сейчас 5 местный.

[Denis Voronin]

Чебурашка пишет:
А что это за красная круглая ручка на переднем плане?

WASD, что ещё то это может быть?

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http://spacenews.com/crewed-starliner-test-flight-could-slip-to-2019/
Crewed Starliner test flight could slip to 2019
by Jeff Foust — September 27, 2017
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"We're in the thick of testing right now, with the intent of flying at least our uncrewed test flight next year, and ideally both our uncrewed and our crewed test flight," he said.

In an interview at the conference, Ferguson said that the company's current schedule calls for a pad abort test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico in the second quarter of 2018. That would be followed by an uncrewed orbital test flight of the vehicle, launched on an Atlas 5, in the third quarter of 2018.

"If the results of that are very favorable," he said of the uncrewed flight test, "our crewed flight test is fourth quarter — perhaps, depending on the outcome, maybe the first quarter of the following year."
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Ferguson said that the company plans to work with NASA to sel ect a crew for that crewed test flight about a year before its launch, or "L-12 months," but wants a greater degree of confidence in the schedule before doing so.

"Every day we're met with new challenges. We'll do our best to stick with that L-12 month target. Obviously, since it's based on a launch date, we'll have to flex accordingly," he said. "If we maintain our fourth quarter target for next year, you could probably see a crew announcement some time in the latter part of this year."

Once the Starliner completes the flight test program and is certified by NASA, Boeing has a contract for six flights to transport NASA astronauts to and fr om the International Space Station. Ferguson said the company is also marketing the vehicle for potential non-NASA customers.
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[tnt22]

https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2017/09/28/drop-tests-at-nasa-langley-help-boeings-starliner-prepare-to-land-astronauts/

Drop Tests at NASA Langley Help Boeing's Starliner Prepare to Land Astronauts
Posted on September 28, 2017 at 3:52 pm by Anna Heiney.

At NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, a mock-up of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft has endured a series of land landing qualification tests to simulate what the actual spacecraft and crew members may experience while returning to Earth from space.

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At NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, a mock-up of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft goes through a series of land landing qualification tests to simulate what the actual spacecraft and crew members may experience while returning to Earth from space. The Starliner is being developed in collaboration with NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Along with SpaceX's Crew Dragon, the spacecraft is part of the agency's effort to return America's capability to launch astronauts from the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station. Photo credit: NASA Langley/David C. Bowman

The Starliner is being developed in collaboration with NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Along with SpaceX's Crew Dragon, the spacecraft is part of the agency's effort to return America's capability to launch astronauts from Florida's Space Coast to the International Space Station, or ISS.

The team recently kicked off a new series of land landing tests, which is designed to measure the vehicle's airbag systems and how the crew responds to land landing scenarios.

"The accommodations inside the test article have become incrementally more flight-like throughout our test campaign," said Boeing test engineer Preston Ferguson. "And the test dummies simulating crew members are very sophisticated, allowing us to identify responses through instrumentation on the head, neck and lumbar areas."

The capsule – designed for landing on land, making it reusable up to ten times with a six-month turnaround time between launches – can accommodate up to five passengers to and from the space station. For NASA missions to station, the Starliner will carry up to four astronauts and about 220 pounds of cargo."

"The first test series verified that the vehicle would be stable in all landing conditions," said Richard Boitnott, Langley project test engineer. "We are constantly reaching higher levels of fidelity with our testing, and have flight-representative parts in critical locations."

Read the full story here.

This entry was posted in Boeing, Commercial Spaceflight on September 28, 2017 by Anna Heiney.

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[tnt22]

https://www.nasa.gov/langley/feature/drop-tests-at-nasa-langley-help-boeing-starliner-prepare-to-land-astronauts

Sept. 26, 2017

Drop Tests at NASA Langley Help Boeing's Starliner Prepare to Land Astronauts


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Boeing Starliner Landing Test
Credits: Boeing

At NASA's Langley Research Center in Hampton, Virginia, a mock-up of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft has endured a series of land landing qualification tests to simulate what the actual spacecraft and crew members may experience while returning to Earth from space.

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The Boeing Starliner spacecraft is undergoing testing at NASA's Langley Research Center at its Landing and Impact Research Facility.
Credits: NASA / Dave Bowman

The Starliner is being developed in collaboration with NASA's Commercial Crew Program. Along with SpaceX's Crew Dragon, the spacecraft is part of the agency's effort to return America's capability to launch astronauts from Florida's Space Coast to the International Space Station, or ISS.


The Boeing Starliner program has performed more than 20 landing tests to determine how the vehicle would fare on land.
Credits: NASA / Dave Bowman

The team recently kicked off a new series of land landing tests, which is designed to measure the vehicle's airbag systems and how the crew responds to land landing scenarios.


Testing crewmembers at NASA Langley give a thumbs up after a test of the Boeing Starliner spacecraft.
Credits: NASA / Dave Bowman

"The accommodations inside the test article have become incrementally more flight-like throughout our test campaign," said Boeing test engineer Preston Ferguson. "And the test dummies simulating crew members are very sophisticated, allowing us to identify responses through instrumentation on the head, neck and lumbar areas."


The Boeing Starliner spacecraft team recently kicked off a new series of land landing tests, which is designed to measure the vehicle's airbag systems and how the crew responds to land landing scenarios.
Credits: NASA / Dave Bowman

The capsule – designed for landing on land, making it reusable up to ten times with a six-month turnaround time between launches – can accommodate up to five passengers to and from the space station. For NASA missions to station, the Starliner will carry up to four astronauts and about 220 pounds of cargo."

"The first test series verified that the vehicle would be stable in all landing conditions," said Richard Boitnott, Langley project test engineer. "We are constantly reaching higher levels of fidelity with our testing, and have flight-representative parts in critical locations."

The Starliner program has performed more than 20 landing tests to determine how the vehicle would fare on land at NASA Langley's Landing and Impact Research Facility and in water at the Hydro Impact Basin under different conditions. These scenarios simulated landing velocities and angles the capsule could encounter during a typical land landing or an unlikely emergency water landing.

"All of the tests were defined through the analysis of worst-case situations," said Jim Gaspar, Langley project test engineer.

"We perform landing tests at the edge of the envelope to anchor analysis models and enhance crew safety for all potential flight scenarios," Ferguson said.

In addition to testing the Starliner when it contains a simulated crew, the airbags used for landing were put through its paces as well.

The airbags, which contain a mixture of compressed nitrogen and oxygen gas, might appear to the untrained eye like larger versions of automobile airbags. However, these airbags have key differences in how they handle occupant loads.

"The Starliner airbags have to be very robust compared to an automotive airbag to meet the requirements for landing and have an active venting system," Ferguson said

"An automotive airbag would just need to worry about the safety of its occupants. The airbags on the Starliner are tasked to protect the crew and the vehicle itself," Boitnott said. "You're dissipating thousands of pounds instead of just the mass of the occupant in a car."

The Starliner comes equipped with six outer landing airbags, which have inner airbags. There is a seventh airbag in spacecraft's center, but it would only be used in a water-landing scenario.

"The outer bag vents at impact. Then, the inner bag absorbs the impact and stays inflated," Gaspar said.

The airbags and other systems verified throughout the land landing test series will help ensure a soft return for the astronauts aboard.

Eric Gillard
NASA Langley Research Center

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Last Updated: Sept. 28, 2017
Editor: Eric Vitug

[zandr]

http://tass.ru/kosmos/4601938

СМИ: Boeing хочет выполнить первый пилотируемый полет корабля Starliner в конце 2018 года
МОСКВА, 29 сентября. /ТАСС/. Первый пилотируемый полет космического корабля CST-100 Starliner запланирован на III квартал 2018 года, но, возможно, будет перенесен на начало 2019 года. Как сообщил в четверг портал Space.com, об этом заявил на проходящем в Аделаиде 68-м Международном астронавтическом конгрессе руководитель программы создания Starliner в корпорации Boeing Крис Фергюсон.
"У нас сейчас - самый разгар испытаний систем корабля и мы намерены осуществить испытательный полет - по крайней мере непилотируемый - в будущем году, - отметил он. - Наиболее удачным вариантом было бы проведение и непилотируемого, и пилотируемого испытательных полетов".
По словам Фергюсона, нынешний график работ предусматривает проведение испытаний по аварийному прекращению процедуры запуска корабля на полигоне Уайт-Сэнд в штате Нью-Мексико во II квартале будущего года. После этого в III квартале 2018 года намечен непилотируемый испытательный полет. "Если непилотируемый полет будет удачным, то пилотируемый полет состоится в IV квартале или, в зависимости от результата, в I квартале следующего года", - заявил он.
Boeing разрабатывает корабль Starliner в соответствии с Программой коммерческих пилотируемых кораблей, финансируемой NASA. После того, как испытания корабля будут завершены, Boeing приступит к выполнению контракта с NASA по осуществлению шести полетов к Международной космической стации для доставки экипажей и грузов.

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zandr пишет:
http://tass.ru/kosmos/4601938

МОСКВА, 29 сентября. /ТАСС/. Первый пилотируемый полет космического корабля CST-100 Starliner запланирован на III квартал 2018 года, но, возможно, будет перенесен на начало 2019 года. Как сообщил в четверг портал Space.com , об этом заявил на проходящем в Аделаиде 68-м Международном астронавтическом конгрессе руководитель программы создания Starliner в корпорации Boeing Крис Фергюсон.
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По словам Фергюсона, нынешний график работ предусматривает проведение испытаний по аварийному прекращению процедуры запуска корабля на полигоне Уайт-Сэнд в штате Нью-Мексико во II квартале будущего года. После этого в III квартале 2018 года намечен непилотируемый испытательный полет. "Если непилотируемый полет будет удачным, то пилотируемый полет состоится в IV квартале или, в зависимости от результата, в I квартале следующего года", - заявил он.

Одна статья, один Фергюсон, но ТАСС запутался при перепечатывании отсюда http://spacenews.com/crewed-starliner-test-flight-could-slip-to-2019/

[Salo]

https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2017/10/05/nasas-commercial-crew-program-target-test-flight-dates/

NASA's Commercial Crew Program Target Test Flight Dates
Posted on October 5, 2017 at 4:20 pm by Anna Heiney.
          
The next generation of American spacecraft and rockets that will launch astronauts to the International Space Station are nearing the final stages of development and evaluation. NASA's Commercial Crew Program will return human spaceflight launches to U.S. soil, providing reliable and cost-effective access to low-Earth orbit on systems that meet our safety and mission requirements. To meet NASA's requirements, the commercial providers must demonstrate that their systems are ready to begin regular flights to the space station. Two of those demonstrations are uncrewed flight tests, known as Orbital Flight Test for Boeing, and Demonstration Mission 1 for SpaceX. After the uncrewed flight tests, both companies will execute a flight test with crew prior to being certified by NASA for crew rotation missions. The following schedule reflects the most recent publicly releasable dates for both providers.

Targeted Test Flight Dates:
 Boeing Orbital Flight Test: August 2018
 Boeing Crew Flight Test: November 2018
 SpaceX Demonstration Mission 1: April 2018
 SpaceX Demonstration Mission 2 (crewed): August 2018

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Tory Bruno‏Подлинная учетная запись @torybruno 3 мин. назад

Very exciting! Mighty #Atlas Booster for OFT, the first #Starliner test flight, (uncrewed). @BoeingDefense #LaunchAmerica #Boeing

[tnt22]

https://blogs.nasa.gov/kennedy/2017/10/25/atlas-v-coming-together-for-uncrewed-orbital-flight-test/

или

https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2017/10/25/atlas-v-coming-together-for-uncrewed-orbital-flight-test/

Rocket Coming Together for Boeing's First Commercial Crew Flight Test
Posted on October 25, 2017 at 11:26 am by Bob Granath.


The Atlas V rocket that will launch Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on the company's uncrewed Orbital Flight Test for NASA's Commercial Crew Program is coming together inside a United Launch Alliance facility in Decatur, Alabama. The flight test is intended to prove the design of the integrated space system prior to the Crew Flight Test. These events are part of NASA's required certification process as the company works to regularly fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Boeing's Starliner will launch on the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.
Photo credit: United Launch Alliance

The Atlas V rocket that will launch Boeing's CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for the company's uncrewed Orbital Flight Test for NASA's Commercial Crew Program is coming together inside a United Launch Alliance facility in Decatur, Alabama.

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The uncrewed Orbital Flight Test is intended to prove the design of the integrated space system prior to the Crew Flight Test. These events are part of NASA's required certification process as the company works to regularly fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station. Boeing and United Launch Alliance have begun conducting integrated reviews of components, software and systems along with decades of Atlas data to ensure integrated vehicle test simulations are similar to real-life conditions during missions. Starliners for the uncrewed and crew test flights, including for the pad abort test, are in various stages of production and testing.

NASA's Commercial Crew Program is working with private companies, Boeing and SpaceX, as they each develop unique systems to fly astronauts for the agency to and from the space station. SpaceX is developing the Crew Dragon, or Dragon 2, spacecraft to launch on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Boeing's Starliner will liftoff on the United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida.

This entry was posted in Uncategorized on October 25, 2017 by Bob Granath.

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[Apollo13]

An Assessment of Cost Improvements in the NASA COTS/CRS Program and Implications for Future NASA Missions 

https://www.reddit.com/r/spacex/comments/7abegw/assessment_of_cost_improvements_in_the_nasa/

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20170008895.pdf 

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20170008894.pdf

[sychbird]

А резюме собственное в одной фразе не помешало бы. 
Лениво на планшет вытаскивать английскую пдэфку и шариться в ней.

[silentpom]

в общем все в шоколаде, чтобы сравниться со стоимостью 1 кг для шаттла (попасть между спейсом и атк) надо делать 6 рейсов шаттлом, а реальные грузы есть только для двух. получаем экономию в 3-4 раза. 

(осталось раскурить какие у шаттла были 4.5 млрд  затраты в год на содержание)

[Apollo13]

sychbird пишет:
А резюме собственное в одной фразе не помешало бы.

Так в чем дело? Прочитайте и напишите.

[tnt22]

Chris B - NSF‏ @NASASpaceflight 52 сек. назад

ARTICLE: Boeing Starliner trio preparing for test flights - https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2017/11/boeing-starliner-trio-test-flights/ ...

Includes more cool renders from @kogavfx

Boeing Starliner trio preparing for test flights

November 27, 2017 by Chris Bergin

[Salo]

https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/nac_ccp_status_nov_29_2017-2.pdf

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 19 мин. назад

From NASA's Lisa Colloredo, schedule of commercial crew demo missions for Boeing and SpaceX in 2018:


14 мин. назад

Milestone schedules for Boeing (top) and SpaceX commercial crew vehicles.


8 мин. назад

Colloredo: very difficult loss-of-crew (LOC) requirement to meet for commercial crew, but made a lot of progress. Helped address the top drivers for LOC.

2 мин. назад

Colloredo: in the end, pretty likely Boeing and SpaceX will present data to argue they meet LOC requirement or come close. Will be up to NASA to do due diligence to confirm that.

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Christopher Ferguson‏Подлинная учетная запись @Astro_Ferg 53 мин назад

So what does a fleet of spacecraft under construction look like? #Starliner - coming soon to a Galaxy near you.

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 5 мин. назад

Shireman: not unexpected Boeing and SpaceX commercial crew test dates slipped to the right; planning for those dates to slip further. No talks with Russia about buying additional Soyuz seats, though.