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Zipitydew
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State of journalism these days unfortunately. I've learned more about all this by simply reading and listening to the NASA briefs myself. Which you'd think the guy who writes all the Ars articles about space stuff would also do being their job and all.
Will probably perform just fine. NASA update a couple weeks back covered results for multiple test firings of the thrusters to solve what was going on during approach. They all worked fine. Some at only 2-3% off peak performance window versus the 20% off that had been measured. So whatever tinkering had been going on seemed to have worked.
One curiosity they'll never be sure on was if seals were truly restricting fuel flow. That potentially the long wait time from stacking everything to launch caused swelling. And now in space that swelling has gone down which is why fuel flow has been fine. But the thruster module they would need to inspect gets left in space before re-entry. So we'll never know for sure.
I don't know why anyone would think that of Boeing. They did fuck all for space until acquiring McDonnell Douglas and parts of Rockwell in like 1997. Then they spun most of that off into ULA with Lockheed precisely because they didn't know what to do with it. Lockheed people have even run ULA for it's entire existence.
The part of Boeing behind Starliner isn't all that old. It's certainly younger and seemingly less talented than ULA.
NASA update a few weeks back said all 27 thrusters passed multiple hot fire simulations of the return mission. That overall things looked fine. And they still felt safety factor of riding home on Dragon was better.
Kinda neat that there are multiple options now. NASA mission leaders felt the same a while back. Even if Starliner seems fine to come home why take even that slight bit of risk.
Probably needs some manual piloting.
Would you wonder less upon learning OP is banned for bad faith actions all over Lemmy?
Will increase as the election approaches. Unless the community and mods stay on top of shutting down obvious trolls.
The collusion kind
Stein and West spam will tick back up asap.
Dumbest mark I've seen in a while. Wish I had a bridge to sell this guy.
Today is not that day