{"id":17003,"date":"2019-11-18T10:05:51","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T10:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/?p=17003"},"modified":"2020-06-09T12:39:31","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T12:39:31","slug":"nasa-test-commercial-crew-boeings-cst-100-starliner-spacecraft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/nasa-test-commercial-crew-boeings-cst-100-starliner-spacecraft\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Test Commercial Crew Boeing\u2019s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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NASA Tested Boeing\u2019s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft<\/a> completed a critical safety milestone on Monday in an end-to-end test of its abort system. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Pad Abort Test took place at Launch Complex 32 at the U.S.\nArmy\u2019s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to NASA, the test was designed to verify each of\nStarliner\u2019s systems will function not only separately, but in concert, to\nprotect astronauts by carrying them safely away from the launch pad in the\nunlikely event of an emergency prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was Boeing\u2019s first flight test with Starliner as part of\nNASA\u2019s Commercial Crew Program\u00a0 to return human spaceflight launches to\nthe International Space Station from American soil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTests like this one are crucial to help us make sure the\nsystems are as safe as possible,\u201d said Kathy Lueders, NASA\u2019s Commercial Crew\nProgram manager. \u201cWe are thrilled with the preliminary results, and now we have\nthe job of really digging into the data and analyzing whether everything worked\nas we expected.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the test, Starliner\u2019s four launch abort engines, and\nseveral orbital maneuvering and attitude control thrusters simultaneously\nignited to rapidly push the spacecraft away from the test stand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Five seconds into flight, the abort engines shut off as planned,\ntransferring steering to the control thrusters for the next five seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A pitcharound maneuver rotated the spacecraft into position for\nlanding as it neared its peak altitude of approximately 4,500 feet. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two of three Starliner\u2019s main parachutes deployed just under\nhalf a minute into the test, and the service module separated from the crew\nmodule a few seconds later. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although designed with three parachutes, two opening\nsuccessfully is acceptable for the test perimeters and crew safety. After one\nminute, the heat shield was released and airbags inflated, and the Starliner\neased to the ground beneath its parachutes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The demonstration took only about 95 seconds from the moment the\nsimulated abort was initiated until the Starliner crew module touched down on\nthe desert ground.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEmergency scenario testing is very complex, and today our team\nvalidated that the spacecraft will keep our crew safe in the unlikely event of\nan abort,\u201d said John Mulholland, Vice President and Program Manager, Boeing\u2019s\nCommercial Crew Program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0\u201cOur teams across the\nprogram have made remarkable progress to get us to this point, and we are fully\nfocused on the next challenge\u2014Starliner\u2019s uncrewed flight to demonstrate\nBoeing\u2019s capability to safely fly crew to and from the space station.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boeing\u2019s next mission, called Orbital Flight Test will launch an\nuncrewed Starliner spacecraft to the station on a United Launch Alliance Atlas\nV rocket from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station\u2019s Space Launch Complex 41 Launch\nis targeted for Dec. 17, 2019.<\/p>\n
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NASA Tested Boeing\u2019s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft completed a critical safety milestone on Monday in an end-to-end test of its abort system. The Pad Abort Test took place at Launch Complex 32 at the U.S. Army\u2019s White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. According to NASA, the test was designed to verify each of Starliner\u2019s systems […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17004,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-research","category-space-news"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/boieng_nasa.jpg",1280,720,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/boieng_nasa-200x200.jpg",200,200,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/boieng_nasa-300x169.jpg",300,169,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/boieng_nasa-768x432.jpg",750,422,true],"large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/boieng_nasa-1024x576.jpg",750,422,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/boieng_nasa.jpg",1280,720,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/boieng_nasa.jpg",1280,720,false],"ultp_layout_landscape_large":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/boieng_nasa.jpg",1200,675,false],"ultp_layout_landscape":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/boieng_nasa.jpg",870,489,false],"ultp_layout_portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/boieng_nasa.jpg",600,338,false],"ultp_layout_square":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/boieng_nasa.jpg",600,338,false],"newspaper-x-single-post":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/boieng_nasa-760x490.jpg",760,490,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-big":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/boieng_nasa-550x360.jpg",550,360,true],"newspaper-x-recent-post-list-image":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/boieng_nasa-95x65.jpg",95,65,true],"web-stories-poster-portrait":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/boieng_nasa.jpg",640,360,false],"web-stories-publisher-logo":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/boieng_nasa.jpg",96,54,false],"web-stories-thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/boieng_nasa.jpg",150,84,false]},"author_info":{"info":["RevoScience"]},"category_info":"Research<\/a> Space\/ AstroPhysics<\/a>","tag_info":"Space\/ AstroPhysics","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.revoscience.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}