Mission Updates

The Starliner flight control team is preparing to bring the spacecraft back to Earth on Sunday morning at White Sands Space Harbor, on White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico.  Key milestones and times include: (All times MST) 5:13 a.m.               MCC Go/No-Go Poll 5:20 a.m.               Deorbit Burn 5:25 a.m.               CM/SM Separation 5:57 a.m.               Landing Since Starliner’s launch […]

Video courtesy United Launch Alliance One of the key objectives of the Starliner Orbital Flight Test is a separation from the ULA Centaur second stage booster rocket. This video shows the successful separation of Starliner from Centaur after the Dec. 20 launch. It’s one of several test objectives completed so far during this mission. This […]

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine, Boeing Senior Vice President of Space and Launch Jim Chilton, and Deputy Manager of NASA Commercial Crew Steve Stich will give a Starliner mission update today at 2 p.m. Teleconference will live stream here: https://nasa.gov/live

Starliner’s Orbital Flight Test is currently in Mission Day 2, and flight controllers and engineering teams worked through the night and into this morning accomplishing many of the flight test objectives planned for the mission. The spacecraft remains in a circular orbit roughly 250 kilometers above sea level. Mission control teams in Houston have been […]

Please join our media teleconference with @NASA for an update on the #Starliner mission at 2pm ET Saturday, Dec. 21. https://www.nasa.gov/live

Chris Ferguson sent this note to Starliner employees Friday evening. Team, While we were off to a perfect on-time launch this morning, as most of you know by now, the team was presented with unique and unanticipated trajectory challenges shortly after we separated from the launch vehicle. By all measures the Atlas/Centaur performed very well. […]