Bpoeing has discovered five different helium leaks on its Starliner spacecraft while docked to the International Space Station.

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  • Droplet [comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    16 days ago

    Also, reminder of this news (posted to news mega at the end of May):

    Boeing decided not to fix the helium leak from the Starliner spacecraft before sending the first crew to the ISS

    Although the oxygen valve on the Atlas V rocket was replaced, Boeing and NASA decided to launch the Starliner with two astronauts to the ISS without replacing a small seal on the helium supply system in the service compartment. The leak affects only one of the 28 engines used to control the spacecraft’s altitude, and is small enough to be dangerous, and taking the ship to the workshop and completely rebuilding it is time-consuming and ineffective. Instead, engineers will monitor the leak before the launch on June 1, and if it does not increase, the launch will go ahead.

    Surely nothing would go wrong. Surely.