CST-100

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 Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 10 мин. назад

Clarification... 3 reliability tests left.

OFT and CFT don't technically count for that, but DO feed into overall parachute system certification.

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 Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 2 мин. назад

The launch whether commit criteria for the #AtlasV and #Starliner. #OFT

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Chris G - NSF‏ @ChrisG_NSF 2 ч. назад

There are indeed launch abort weather Launch Commit Criteria that will factor into "Go/No Go" decision.


24 мин. назад


These Ascent Abort weather commit criteria will NOT be in play for Friday, only for Crew missions.


21 мин. назад

But for the record, here are the #Starliner Ascent Abort weather considerations for the crewed flights of the capsule.

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Michael Baylor‏ @nextspaceflight 2 ч. назад

Astrovan II will transport astronauts to the SLC-41 launch pad ahead of Starliner missions.

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Jeff Foust‏ @jeff_foust 36 мин. назад

While the Starliner flying the Orbital Flight Test is on the pad, the crew and service modules for the crewed flight test are undergoing final preparations.





34 мин. назад

The Starliner from last month's pad abort test is also here.

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https://www.boeing.com/features/2019/09/patches-revealed-09-19.page

Patches Revealed
Starliner mission patch designs released
September 12, 2019 in Space



Mission patches are more than collectibles – they are a long-standing tradition that tell the incredible story of human spaceflight. For decades, astronauts of every historic endeavor have been personally involved in designing these emblems, and the three new CST-100 Starliner flight test patches are no exception.

"The Starliner program represents many firsts for Boeing, so we wanted to make sure a mix of employees who have designed, built and tested the spacecraft could influence their look and feel," said Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson.

Ferguson championed the development of the Orbital Flight Test, Pad Abort Test and Crew Flight Test patches. The design phase was a team sport with Starliner employees, Boeing Creative Services, and NASA astronauts Nicole Mann, Mike Fincke and Eric Boe.

"Their shapes, colors and symbols were chosen to highlight each mission's significance," Ferguson said.

As an example, each of the three patches are five-sided, representing the spacecraft's five phases of development, as well as the five available seats on service missions to the International Space Station. Be on the lookout for them to show up, along with other space merchandise, on the Boeing Store Space Shop.


Orbital Flight Test patch: Over the past half-century, Boeing has played an integral role in every U.S. human spaceflight program. The olive branch on this patch nods to that history as a reference to the Apollo 11 moon landing patch, and to NASA as the agency welcomes Boeing to the era of commercial human spaceflight services. With shades of blue representing our methodical steps to reach low Earth orbit, this patch was ultimately inspired by the image of Starliner first docking to the Boeing-built International Docking Adaptor attached to the International Space Station.


Pad Abort Test patch: Drawing inspiration fr om the scenic New Mexico desert wh ere the test will take place, the varying colors of orange represent the steps we took to qualify the Starliner's abort system, beginning at the component level and graduating to an integrated test level. The patch depicts the spacecraft's four Launch Abort Engines, which would get the Starliner crew module and its passengers away from a dangerous situation while on the launch pad or through ascent. The sun represents the rise of a new age in human spaceflight that puts safety of crew members at the forefront of all we do.


Crew Flight Test patch: Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson, and NASA astronauts Nicole Mann, Mike Fincke and Eric Boe, worked with Starliner employees from across the country to develop a patch that pays homage to the national importance of the Starliner program. The red vector coming off the sides of the spacecraft represents NASA's insignia, known as the "meatball," as a symbol of our collaboration with America's space agency. The dark blue background represents low Earth orbit and the iconic Boeing blue hue. A yellow sunburst following the curvature of the Earth symbolizes the dawn of a new era in human spaceflight with the first orbital flight of a crewed commercial spacecraft. The full depiction of the International Space Station portrays the Starliner's first destination in space.

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Какие ожидания от первого беспилотного полёта?
аэродинамика юбочки?
стыковка?
посадка? её точность?
какие данные от Розочки будут доступны публике?

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В Boeing сообщили, что планируют вернуть Starliner на Землю через 48 часов


ТАСС, 20 декабря. Корпорация Boeing планирует вернуть корабль Starliner на Землю в течение 48 часов. Об этом сообщил вице-президент компании Джим Чилтон.

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Nathan Barker‏ @NASA_Nerd 5 мин. назад

NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel Annual Report 2019 statement regarding CFT & the Mission Elapsed Timer anomaly during #OFT

"The impact of the anomaly on the launch date for the Crew Flight Test (CFT), if any, will depend upon the results of post-flight analysis"

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https://blogs.nasa.gov/bridenstine/2020/01/07/nasa-update-on-boeings-orbital-flight-test/
https://blogs.nasa.gov/commercialcrew/2020/01/07/nasa-update-on-boeings-orbital-flight-test/

NASA Update on Boeing's Orbital Flight Test

Jim Bridenstine
Posted Jan 7, 2020 at 3:53 pm


Boeing, NASA, and U.S. Army personnel work around the Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft shortly after it landed in White Sands, New Mexico, Sunday, Dec. 22, 2019. Photo Credit: (NASA/Bill Ingalls)

NASA and Boeing are in the process of establishing a joint, independent investigation team to examine the primary issues associated with the company's uncrewed Orbital Flight Test.

The independent team will inform NASA and Boeing on the root cause of the mission elapsed timer anomaly and any other software issues and provide corrective actions needed before flying crew to the International Space Station for the agency's Commercial Crew Program. The team will review the primary anomalies experienced during the Dec. 2019 flight test, any potential contributing factors and provide recommendations to ensure a robust design for future missions. Once underway, the investigation is targeted to last about two months before the team delivers its final assessment.

In parallel, NASA is evaluating the data received during the mission to determine if another uncrewed demonstration is required. This decision is not expected for several weeks as teams take the necessary time for this review. NASA's approach will be to determine if NASA and Boeing received enough data to validate the system's overall performance, including launch, on-orbit operations, guidance, navigation and control, docking/undocking to the space station, reentry and landing. Although data from the uncrewed test is important for certification, it may not be the only way that Boeing is able to demonstrate its system's full capabilities.

The uncrewed flight test was proposed by Boeing as a way to meet NASA's mission and safety requirements for certification and as a way to validate that the system can protect astronauts in space before flying crew. The uncrewed mission, including docking to the space station, became a part of the company's contract with NASA. Although docking was planned, it may not have to be accomplished prior to the crew demonstration. Boeing would need NASA's approval to proceed with a flight test with astronauts onboard.

Starliner currently is being transported from the landing location near the U.S. Army's White Sands Missile Range to the company's Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility in Florida. Since landing, teams have safed the spacecraft for transport, downloaded data from the spacecraft's onboard systems for analysis and completed initial inspections of the interior and exterior of Starliner. A more detailed analysis will be conducted after the spacecraft arrives at its processing facility.

Boeing's Orbital Flight test launched on Friday, Dec. 20, on United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The mission successfully landed two days later on Sunday, Dec. 22, completing an abbreviated test that performed several mission objectives before returning to Earth as the first orbital land touchdown of a human-rated capsule in U.S. history.

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https://starlinerupdates.com/starliner-arrives-back-in-florida-teams-hard-at-work-in-2020/

Starliner arrives back in Florida, teams hard at work in 2020

January 14, 2020


Our Orbital Flight Test Starliner being processed by technicians after return from White Sands Missile Range.

On Wednesday, January 8, the Starliner that flew the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test returned safely to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After launching from Cape Canaveral on December 20, 2019, and landing at the White Sands Missile Range on December 22, the Starliner was recovered and prepared for shipment across the country, and then left the desert on January 3.

In general, the plan for post-flight processing of this spacecraft is as follows:

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• Thorough external inspection
  
• Hatch opening and visual verification the seal is in good shape and will keep pressure integrity and people safe as the telemetry data indicates
  
• Interior inspection and verification the capsule is as clean as the telemetry data would indicate
  
• Removal of cover panels and some key components across systems including avionics, propulsion and life support, detailed inspection and verification of those key components after first flight
  
• Detailed inspection of chutes, rigging and airbags with emphasis on unexpected chafing and wear-and-tear
  
• Assessment of how heat loading during ascent and entry affected docking system and capsule sidewalls, will compare results against pre-flight thermal models
  
• Transition to standard post-flight refurbishment and pre-flight testing
  

In parallel, technicians will continue preparing another Starliner crew and service module for the next flight. That vehicle is currently in the final assembly and processing phases. Starliner engineers and analysts are also working on compiling and understanding all the data collected from the Orbital Flight Test, and together with our NASA customer, the data will be reviewed and decisions will be made based on what is learned. As this process continues, we will provide updates as timely and as accurately as possible, including initial results from external inspections and thermal assessments as early as this week.

In the meantime, an independent Boeing-NASA team has been formed and are reviewing the software anomaly to determine root cause and recommend corrective actions. Additionally, individual teams are evaluating data and conducting comprehensive system-by-system reviews as part of the normal post-flight test process. Boeing teams now have access to and are currently compiling results from the last of the data recorded during flight.

This includes:

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• Compiling the specialized development measurements and comparing them to telemetry data to assess timing and consistency
  
• Some demonstration flight instrumentation (DFI) results revealing hull temp and strains, indicating structural integrity and accuracy of design forecasts
  
• Correlation of any visual inspection or data observations with the full set available
  
• Detailed reviews are underway in partnership with NASA, which we expect to wrap up in a few weeks
  

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NASA Commercial Crew: Returning Human Spaceflight to America

NASA's Kennedy Space Center

27 янв. 2020 г.

NASA and Commercial Crew Program partners Boeing and SpaceX are preparing to launch astronauts from Florida's Space Coast.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/WrX0287xk10 (1:23)

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Chris G - NSF@ChrisG_NSF 5:57 PM - Jan 31, 2020

Full statement from @BoeingSpace about #Starliner progress and how the $410 million dollar to a potential reflight of #OFT actually covers much more than a single Starliner flight on #AtlasV.

https://twitter.com/BoeingSpace/status/1223257800698204166 ...

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Michael Sheetz✔@thesheetztweetz 11:01 PM - Feb 3, 2020

Boeing officials told the GAO that refurbishing the Starliner capsule from December's uncrewed flight test will take 4 months.

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11:05 PM - Feb 3, 2020

But NASA officials say "a number of problems were found in recent" testing of Starliner's initiators – while Boeing's design was an accepted risk for the uncrewed test, NASA will require additional testing before a crewed flight.

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Я наконец понял на что похож Starliner, на Грамазеку !

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Jeff Foust@jeff_foust 10:08 PM - Feb 6, 2020

ASAP member Paul Hill: a second software issue found with Starliner and corrected; could have led to "catastrophic failure" of spacecraft. Still evaluating root cause. Recommend review of Boeing's verification processes.

Для справки: ASAP - NASA Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel

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Чую одним  местом - могло произойти самопроизвольное отделение агрегатного отсека  

Сцыкотно за SLS - что они там напрограммировали.

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That anomaly was discovered during ground testing while the spacecraft was in orbit, panel member Paul Hill said. "While this anomaly was corrected in flight, if it had gone uncorrected, it would have led to erroneous thruster firings and uncontrolled motion during [service module] separation for deorbit, with the potential for a catastrophic spacecraft failure," he said.

Не угадал...

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Eric Berger✔@SciGuySpace 10:19 PM - Feb 6, 2020

In regard to this issue, I actually asked Boeing comms about it three weeks ago after a source tipped me off. The response I received is in my next tweet.


10:19 PM - Feb 6, 2020

"Given the shortened 48 hour mission, software uploads were sent near the end of mission. The final upload before landing's main purpose was to ensure a proper disposal burn of the Service Module after separation, and had nothing to do with Crew Module reentry."


12:55 AM - Feb 7, 2020

Yeah, I'm going to learn from this one. https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/02/starliner-faced-catastrophic-failure-before-software-bug-found/ ...

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https://tass.ru/kosmos/7706419

7 ФЕВ, 04:21
СМИ: в NASA рекомендовали Boeing тщательнее проверять ПО из-за проблем со Starliner
Ранее из-за технических неполадок запланированная стыковка Starliner с МКС была отменена

НЬЮ-ЙОРК, 7 февраля. /ТАСС/. Специалисты Национального управления США по аэронавтике и исследованию космического пространства (NASA) рекомендовали изменить процедуру проверки программного обеспечения (ПО) в компании Boeing из-за выявленных неполадок при запуске ее корабля Starliner в декабре 2019 года. Об этом сообщил в четверг интернет-портал Space News.

Starliner был запущен 20 декабря в беспилотном режиме к Международной космической станции (МКС) с авиабазы на мысе Канаверал (штат Флорида) с помощью ракеты-носителя Atlas V. Из-за технических неполадок запланированная стыковка корабля с орбитальным комплексом была отменена. Одной из причин был признан сбой в системе подсчета полетного времени. В итоге корабль был возвращен на Землю.

Как отмечается в публикации Space News, члены комиссии NASA по вопросам безопасности полетов провели совещание, на котором обсудили еще одну выявленную неполадку в работе ПО Starliner. О ней, как отмечает портал, ранее не сообщалось. Один из членов указанной комиссии Пол Хилл уточнил, что "данная неполадка была исправлена во время полета". Как он подчеркнул, "если бы этого не сделали, то по ошибке включился бы двигатель, имело бы место неконтролируемое движение во время отделения" служебного отсека. По словам Хилла, это "могло привести к катастрофической неисправности космического корабля".

Как подчеркнул Хилл, произошедшее вызвало у комиссии озабоченность относительно того, тщательно ли проверяют в Boeing программное обеспечение. Комиссия рекомендует пересмотреть соответствующие процедуры и повысить их эффективность.

Новый американский корабль Starliner, разработанный Boeing, имеет массу 13 тонн. Он рассчитан на экипаж из семи человек и способен в течение 60 часов осуществлять автономный полет.