Boeing and NASA are still trying to resolve the Starliner valve problem

Things that haven’t fluent with Starliner like Boeing and NASA will hope. The Starliner launch was rubbed due to a problem with the valve. The spacecraft must be removed from Launchpad and dismantled to solve the problem, and now, NASA and Boeing cannot fix this problem.

NASA issued a statement on October 8 which confirmed that the engineers had released all except one of the 13 trapped propellant valves that prevented the launch in early August. Instead of engineers could not free the last traffic valve. They deliberately left him to allow them to keep forensics to find the root causes of problems.

The current theory of what causes a traffic jam is the interaction between moisture propellant and tetroxide nitrogen. However, it has never been clear how moisture will enter the propellant. Boeing has dismantled three valves and intends to remove three more to check it out. The results of the inspection will determine what Boeing must do to prepare the Starliner for the future mission.

Options for moving forward to launch include small repairs from spacecraft to a complete replacement of the service module. Everywhere happens with capsule repairs, NASA has been clear that the launch will not happen this year. Instead, the earliest launch date was around in the first half of 2022.

Starliner’s mission will make it go to the ISS, where it will be anchored with the space station. The first opportunity for free docking ports will occur early next year. However, NASA officials had clearly that it was too early to narrow the date of the current potential launch.

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