Boeing Cockpit until you fly to the ISS. As it is associated with the 737 Max?
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«Starliner» flew 3 days and returned to Earth. Why?
Sunday, December 22, the spacecraft Boeing CST-100 Cockpit made a successful landing in new Mexico (USA). Although not everyone believed that the Starliner will make it to Earth, the ship still was able to complete his first test flight. Well, that it took place without a crew on Board, after the initial stage of the flight the ship was detected a serious fault and instead of the planned 8 day Cockpit held in the air for only 3 days. Therefore, although Boeing and managed to land their offspring without incident, before Crew Dragon he is still very far away.
What happened to the ship Cockpit lady
At First nothing foretold troubles — as planned, 20 Dec Atlas V rocket, equipped with Russian RD-180 engines, was launched from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral and successfully placed the Cockpit on the original orbit. Subsequently, however, in the reference frame of flight time the failure occurred — because of this, the ship was not able to adjust its own orbit to enter the path and get closer to ISS.
Despite the fact that the engines of the "Starliner" is still joined a little later, there was no fuel for flight to the International Space station. Therefore, the docking was cancelled and 3 days later the ship returned to Earth.
Boeing Cockpit after landing, Dec 22, 2019
How are the Boeing 737 Max and Starliner
After two disasters involving Boeing 737 Max's manufacturer failed to obtain permission to resume their flights. In the vast hangars of the company and simply in the field are around a lot of planes that don't charge customers, because they will not be able to produce them on a regular flight without the permission of the aviation Committee. According to unconfirmed reports, some of these "Boeing" was written by programmers from India, who were working on outsource basis for ridiculous money.
Boeing 737 Max, which I can not fly up into the air.
It turned out that Boeing only manufactures aircraft — it is also a major contractor to NASA. After the scandals with Boeing 737 Max many were concerned that this company is involved in the development of space programs, but then reassured all that these are two completely unrelated units. However, the incident with the "Starliner" makes us think that the creation of software for aircraft and space vehicles at Boeing in no way connected among themselves.
In fact, developing software for spacecraft and over software for the aircraft to really work different teams. Moreover, it is different companies — Boeing's Space is a "daughter" of the head of the "Boeing". But somehow too many stocks with software for such a large Corporation.
In the case of the Boeing 737 Max, the problem was in the system MCAS. The company soon with a fix to the problem, but has not yet received approval from the Federal aviation administration to operate aircraft. The causes of the incident, which occurred with the "Starliner", have yet to understand.
What ship is better — Cockpit or Crew Dragon
In 2018, Boeing tested the engines of the "Starliner". The engines worked as expected, however shortly after their shutdown happened "anomaly" that led to the fuel leak. As it turned out, the problem was in the valves of fuel – they were defective and could not be closed. This has forced Boeing to postpone the originally planned test of a space launch vehicle .
The Delay also allowed the "competitor" Boeing, SpaceX to conduct the first unmanned test of their new manned spacecraft Crew Dragon, sending the latter to the ISS. To date, Crew Dragon and returned to Earth.
Testing engines «the Starliner, 2019
Testing parachutes were from Boeing successfully — therefore «Starliner» landed without problems
Of Course, and Crew Dragon originally . This year during one of the test engines spacecraft SpaceX . In addition, the Crew Dragon had problems with the parachute system. Subsequently, however, SpaceX has corrected all the flaws that allowed the company to have a successful flight to the ISS.
What awaits Boeing
Previously, Boeing and SpaceX was equal, but now the aircraft manufacturer is clearly an outsider. With the closing of the space Shuttle program the US has not been able to deliver their astronauts to the ISS and bring them back. To do this, America used the services of Roscosmos and the Russian ships "Union". New ships for manned flights under contracts with NASA, has developed a private American company SpaceX and Boeing. Only now, yet they have hope just for Elon musk and his brainchild. No wonder NASA is secure and announced the desire to book some more places for 2020.
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