Starliner: Boeing, Boeing... it's back! Borked capsule makes a successful return to Earth

Starliner: Boeing, Boeing... it's back! Borked capsule makes a successful return to Earth

4 years ago
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https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/12/23/cst_100_lands/

Boeing's borked capsule, the CST-100 Starliner, successfully returned to Earth yesterday while engineers scrambled to work out what went wrong, and managers rushed to justify the truncated mission.

The capsule triumphantly, and finally, left the Earth on Friday morning atop an Atlas V. However, things went badly wrong for the cone-shaped spacecraft after just over 30 minutes, following separation from Centaur second stage. A borked Mission Elapsed Timer meant the spacecraft thought it was further ahead in the mission than it actually was, and Starliner burnt through its attitude control fuel before getting anywhere near the International Space Station (ISS).