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#LEO: Starliner delayed. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

The John Batchelor Show

John Batchelor

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4.52.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2024

⏱️ 10 minutes

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0:00.0

This is a

0:03.0

is CBS, I on the world. I'm John Bouch. Behind the Black Bob Zimmerman is here to take a space engineering.

0:09.0

Starliner, anchored to the ISS on its maiden voyage with mankind on board and yet

0:15.4

Bob what's an update on Starliner there have been delays in the recent past yes

0:20.8

and there's another delay on its return.

0:23.4

They've decided to push back the return undocking and landing of Star Line over the two astronauts

0:30.5

for more days.

0:31.5

They're aiming it now for the early morning hours of June 26.

0:35.7

It'll land in white sand. It's a land landing with Starliner.

0:40.0

And they're delayed it to four days because they want more time to analyze the data from the

0:46.2

thrust of firings that they did over the weekend while the capsule was uh... the capsule is attached to i assess

0:55.8

this gives you an idea of how worried a little bit worried they are about

0:59.5

those thrusts they fail some of them failed during the docking procedures and they had to do

1:04.0

additional tests before docking to make sure they would work when they wanted them to.

1:09.6

So they docked and now they're testing them again and they fired the they did a very short burst over the weekend to test two different bursts to test the

1:18.8

The thrusts they found that one thrusts that is just not producing an acceptable result results so they're not going to use it at all on the return to earth.

1:27.0

The other seven though are producing what they called good thrust, good data, but they want to spend a few more days analyzing that data and they really

1:34.9

want to look at it closely because these thrusters are attached to the service module and

1:39.2

the capsule. That service module doesn't come back to earth so they won't get those

1:43.2

starsters back on the ground to look at

1:45.6

and so since this is a flight and a test flight of saw line with people on board

1:52.2

they want to get as much data and

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