The Boeing Spacecraft Star Liner was seen on July 3, 2024 from the window of SpaceX’s dragon capsule “Endeavor”, and was docked to the International Space Station during the crew flight test.
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Boeing After a difficult year when the capsule’s first astronaut flight turned into a NASA headache, he lost more than $ 2 billion and rely on Starliner spacecraft.
The Starliner program reported in 2024 a $ 523 million price. This was a maximum year’s loss so far, and was reported on Monday applications. The company stated that Starliner has signed a fixed -price contract from NASA, saying, “There is a continuous risk that similar losses may have to be recognized in the future.”
When NASA was awarded to Boeing under a fixed -price contract of nearly $ 5 billion to develop a Starliner in 2014, the company recorded almost every year in programs.
The Boeing program competes with ELON MUSK’s SpaceX, which flew on 10 crew missions for NASA and rely on Dragon Capsules.
Last summer, the flight of Boeing’s first crew failed after a part of the capsule promotion system was malfunction. Starliner delivered astronaut Butci Wilmore and Sunni Williams to the International Space Station, but NASA has decided to return the Starliner to the sky and use SpaceX to return the crew earlier this year. did.
Neither Boeing nor NASA provides a method or timing details to solve the problem of Starliner.
Boeing reported last week that Mark Nappi, Vice President of Starliner, was leaving his role, and was nominated by the company’s ISS program manager John Malholand. Ta. MULLHOLLAND used to lead the StarLiner program from 2011 to 2020.
Almost four months ago, NASA maintained the “Window of Starliner’s potential flight opportunity in 2025”, but SPACEX skips both crew members in the mission starting at the end of spring and summer. He said he was planning for it. After that, NASA has specified that “the next flight and composition of the Starliner will be decided to better understand the way to Boeing’s system certification.”
The agency has not provided the latest information on Starliner since making those comments in October.