NASA and Boeing making progress on Starliner investigation
Posted: Sat, Feb 1, 2025, 9:44 AM ET (1444 GMT)
NASA and Boeing are making progress into resolving issues on Starliner's flawed test flight last year, but have yet to fix problems with its thrusters. NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel stated at a meeting Thursday that NASA and Boeing teams had made "significant progress" on closing out anomalies that took place during the Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission last summer. Starliner launched two astronauts to the International Space Station on CFT in June, but returned three months later uncrewed because of NASA concerns about the performance of its thrusters. The panel said that NASA and Boeing have yet to find the root cause of the thruster problems and did not offer a schedule for doing so. NASA and Boeing have said little about Starliner since the spacecraft's return in September and have not scheduled the vehicle's next flight to the station.
NASA and Boeing are making progress into resolving issues on Starliner's flawed test flight last year, but have yet to fix problems with its thrusters. NASA's Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel stated at a meeting Thursday that NASA and Boeing teams had made "significant progress" on closing out anomalies that took place during the Crew Flight Test (CFT) mission last summer. Starliner launched two astronauts to the International Space Station on CFT in June, but returned three months later uncrewed because of NASA concerns about the performance of its thrusters. The panel said that NASA and Boeing have yet to find the root cause of the thruster problems and did not offer a schedule for doing so. NASA and Boeing have said little about Starliner since the spacecraft's return in September and have not scheduled the vehicle's next flight to the station.
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