The start attempt initially planned for Wednesday (local time) will not take place according to the information. A start attempt planned for Tuesday had previously been canceled. It is unclear when the test flight can take place. Nasa and Boeing want to “take all the time necessary to ensure that the ‘Starliner’ is ready”.
The “Starliner” developed by Boeing was supposed to take off unmanned for the ISS on Friday. Because there was an incident with a brief loss of control over the position of the station in space when the Russian research module “Nauka” arrived on Thursday, the test of the “Starliner” had already been postponed.
The aim of the unmanned test flight is to create the basis for the “Starliner” to be able to transport astronauts to the space station in the future. That should have happened a long time ago, but in a first test in December 2019, the spaceship did not make it to the ISS, among other things because of a problem with the automatic ignition of the drives. (SDA)