On Thursday, an Atlas 5 rocket boosted a Boeing Starliner crew capsule into orbit — the company's third attempt in two-and-a-half years to reach the International Space Station.
But with a long list of upgrades and improvements in place, mission managers were confident the spacecraft was finally ready for another attempt and at 6:54 p.m. EDT, the capsule's United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 roared to life and vaulted away from launch pad 41 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
In any case, the capsule will catch up with the lab complex late Friday afternoon, using a high-tech artificial vision system to home in for docking around 7:10 p.m. On board: about 500 pounds of station crew supplies and equipment and an instrumented mannequin — Rosie the Rocketeer — that will collect environmental data throughout the mission.
Boeing has had a rougher time of it, failing to get its Starliner to the space station as planned during the 2019 test flight and then running into the valve corrosion issue that derailed a launch attempt last August. Having a second provider, he said,"gives us a robust capability so if one isn't working, we've got the other one."
The Starliner is not carrying any passengers on its second test flight, but an instrumented mannequin in a Boeing pressure suit - Rosie the Rocketeer - will be used to collect data on accelerations, temperature, radiation and acoustics throughout the flight.The Starliner was released to fly on its own 15 minutes after takeoff. Boeing and ULA designed a unique trajectory for the Starliner, one that sets up a quick return to Earth if major problems develop.
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