PRIANGAN ZONE – Boeing is on a mission to restore its space program on Tuesday, August 3, 2021 via an unmanned flight of the Starliner capsule to the International Space Station (ISS), after its last test in 2019 ended in failure.
The spacecraft will launch on an Atlas V rocket built by the United Launch Alliance from Cape Canaveral Space Station in Florida at 13:20 Eastern time (1720 GMT).
The mission will be broadcast live, Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2), will be broadcast on the website NASA.
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About 30 minutes after launch, the Starliner capsule will fire its thrusters to enter orbit and begin an all-day journey to the space station, with docking set at 1:37 p.m. on Wednesday.
Current weather forecasts estimate a launch chance of 60 percent, clouds and flashes of lightning being one of the main obstacles at launch.
The test flight was supposed to take place on Friday but had to be rescheduled after a Russian science module accidentally fired its thrusters after docking with the ISS, sending the orbital outpost out of its normal orientation.
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After NASA ended the Space Shuttle program in 2011, NASA give Boeing and SpaceX a multi-billion dollar contract to provide its astronaut taxi services to the space station and end the United States’ dependence on Russian rockets for the trip.
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