With a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket, Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 (OFT-2) mission is now scheduled to take off on May 19 at 6:54 p.m. local time from the Cape Canaveral base complex in Florida. United States.
In France, it will take off on May 20 at 00:54 Paris time for the famous Starliner habitable space capsule.
This test flight will be carried out without a crew on board. As part of a mission lasting a few days, the capsule will have to dock with the International Space Station (ISS), then return to Earth during a landing in the western United States.
Soon the first manned test flight for Starliner?
Depending on the success and success of the OFT-2 mission as a whole, NASA and Boeing will then be able to determine a launch window for Starliner’s crewed qualification flight (Crew Flight Test), with therefore for the first time astronauts on board.
The OFT-2 mission had many postponements. It will take place with the service module which was planned for the first operational Starliner-1 mission. As of December 2019, the OFT-1 mission had been a semi-failure, with no docking to the ISS due to several software anomalies.
Subsequently, other problems have jeopardized the calendar, including a problem identified with the propulsion system during a check and the blockage of valves due to corrosion. Meanwhile, SpaceX has chained operational flights for the transport of astronauts to the ISS with Crew Dragon.
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