The Boeing pad operations team closed the hatch to the CST-100 Starliner inside the White Room ahead of its liftoff atop the United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket for the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2). Inside the Starliner is “Rosie the Rocketeer,” an anthropometric test device, and about 800 pounds (362 kilograms) of cargo, 500 […]
Archives for May 2022
Atlas V Fueled for Liftoff
The Boeing CST-100 Starliner is nearing the launch of its Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) to the International Space Station for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. The United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket that will lift the vehicle into space is now fueled and configured for stable replenish. Additionally, the pad team has been cleared to […]
Starliner Roll to Pad
The Boeing CST-100 Starliner, positioned atop the United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket, rolled out today from the Vertical Integration Facility to Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Starliner stands ready to launch for the Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2). The flight test, which includes orbital maneuvering, International Space Station (ISS) rendezvous, docking, […]
Starliner/Atlas Proceeding Toward Launch
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner is integrated on top of United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Various tests have been completed to ensure all systems between the rocket and spacecraft are communicating and functioning properly before roll to the pad. Teams conducted numerous checks, including a power up of the spacecraft’s […]
Flight Readiness Concludes for Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2
NASA and Boeing are proceeding with plans for the uncrewed Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) to the International Space Station following a full day of briefings and discussions during a Flight Readiness Review that took place at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Launch of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on a United Launch Alliance […]
Starliner returns to launch site for OFT-2
The spacecraft rolled out May 4 from the back of Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a transport vehicle and then left the parking lot at about 11:00 a.m. EDT. Starliner made a carefully orchestrated trek to United Launch Alliance’s Vertical Integration Facility (VIF) at Cape […]