Boeing and NASA said on Sunday that their teams are preparing to launch a new Starliner space capsule on June 5 after an attempt at the first test flight was canceled on Saturday, UNN writes, citing Reuters.
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The Starliner capsule was ready to launch from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, before the ground system's computer activated an auto-interrupt command that stopped the launch sequence.
NASA said its teams worked all night to evaluate ground-based auxiliary equipment on the launch pad, which had problems during the countdown, and found a problem with a ground-based power supply inside one of the landing gear that provides power to a subset of computer maps monitoring various system functions.
According to the US Space Agency, the landing gear with a faulty ground-based powertrain was removed, visually inspected and replaced with a spare landing gear.
After launch, the Starliner is expected to arrive at the space station after a flight lasting about 24 hours and dock with an orbiting research station at an altitude of about 402 km above Earth.
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The first manned flight of the CST-200 Starliner to the International Space Station (ISS) with two astronauts on board remains a key milestone for Boeing, as the company tries to gain a larger share of the lucrative business that NASA is involved in, which is now dominated by Elon Musk's SpaceX.