NASA spacecraft went to the ISS, but went into the wrong orbit

The newest Starliner spacecraft launched on an Atlas-5 launch vehicle to the International Space Station. Shortly after launch, NASA reported that the Starliner had not yet been able to reach its intended orbit. The spacecraft will dock with the ISS on December 21. Writes about this with the BBC.

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“The spacecraft is currently in a stable orbit and the team on Earth is reviewing its options,” NASA Mission Control in Houston said. Then the control center began to perform maneuvers to correct the spacecraft's orbit.

The launch of the ship in a test unmanned mode was carried out from the 41st launch complex at the launch site at Cape Canaveral in the state of Florida and was in normal mode.

15 minutes after the launch, the ship separated from the carrier stage and began an independent flight, however, at the estimated time, the ship's engines did not turn on.

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said that “the engine burn required for rendezvous with the ISS did not occur.”

On board the Starliner is the dummy Rosie and about 270 kilograms of cargo for the International Space Station, including food for the crew.

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The mannequin is equipped with numerous sensors to monitor its “condition” during flight, so that experts can use its example to analyze flight conditions for living astronauts.

As NASA's press service reported, if the test flight is successful, the Starliner will be certified for manned flights. The ship is designed for a crew of up to seven people.

Starliner is expected to return to Earth on December 28, with an automatic descent capsule scheduled to land in the New Mexico desert.

The Starliner was created by Boeing, which received more than $5 billion for the development of the project under a contract with NASA.

In parallel, another US company SpaceX received from NASA $ 3,1 billion for the development of its spacecraft Crew Dragon, which performed the first unmanned test flight on the ISS in automatic mode in March this year.

The new generation of spacecraft is expected to help NASA stop using the Russian Soyuz manned spacecraft, which have been sending American astronauts into space since 2011, when American shuttle flights to the ISS ceased.

According to Brydenstein, the new ship is also designed to bring the era of commercial space flights.

“Our ultimate goal is to lower prices, innovate and increase access to space in a way we've never had before,” he explained.

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