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NASA, Boeing and ULA announce June 1 as new target date for Starliner’s Crew Flight Test – Spaceflight Now (spaceflightnow.com)

submitted 7 months ago by llamacoffee to c/[email protected]

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[–] clothes 2 points 7 months ago

I assumed optics would force them to replace the part, even if there wasn't an engineering reason to do so. Glad I was wrong!

A small RCS leak feels like something that can be compensated for in software.