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Fifth helium leak detected on Starliner
(spacenews.com)
Boeing engineering department:
Spoiler
They're removing leeks.
Contrary. The farmers are at least productive.
Take your upvote and get out!
slaps knee
The mound at the bottom left is where they buried the QC inspector.
after being delayed for so long, while costing significantly more than SpaceX's offering, this is really just a very bad look
and, its coming at a time when everyone is already suspicious of Boeing from their aircraft manufacturing practices
"psi [pounds per square inch] per minute" is an odd unit of measure.
The SI version would be Pascals per second, which simplifies to... kg / (m * s^3)? Kilogram per meter per second cubed?
But in SI you can easily (and metrically) translate it to volume/s, which would then probably be less cumbersome.
The volumes would be different on either side of the leak. Usually you standardise leak measurements to STP, and give it in standard cubic centimetres per second, SCC/s, i.e. 'how much fluid would be escaping if it were in a room at one atmosphere of pressure at 20°C'. Makes it easier to compare.
Not volume/s, pressure/s
Ok just shut down Boeing at this point
I’d hate to be the person who detected it.
I'd hate to be the person talking to the crew right now...
All those squeaky voices will quickly get extremely irritating.
For he who detected it, ejected it
“Hey why’s my voice sound funny??”
Is this really going to turn out to be another challenger, fucking hell
No, it won't. At least, not because of a helium leak. Starliner is currently holding ten times the amount of helium needed to safely deorbit the capsule. These new leaks aren't anything mision-endangering and are leaking hundreds of times slower than the one they detected beforehand that NASA still deemed acceptable to launch with.
More like Columbia, where the issue is detected and they bring it home anyway and it breaks up on reentry.
I've always wondered if there was a viable solution to save the Colombia astronauts
It was possible to save them, but it wasn't actionable. The level of danger the crew was in wasn't fully understood, and NASA didn't believe that they were going to lose the crew and ship on reentry, so nothing was done.
I would recommend watching this whole video if you have the time, but I've linked to the most relevant chapter. It's a very good breakdown about the failures of NASA's risk management around the space shuttle.
The only option they had were to send another shuttle up and transfer to it. There was nothing in place to repair the heat shielding, even if they had known the amount of damage.
The shuttle transfer would have been something never attempted or even planned for.
I've been out of the loop but when I hear that Boeing had built and was launching a spacecraft I immediately knew there was going to be problem. If they have a document history of cutting corners on their aircraft, what would make people think this would be any different.
I hope the astronauts can make it back without incident but knowing Boeing they might use the reentry as an opportunity to "disappear" the whiteness
Remember when Boeing was cool, Pepperidge farms remembers
this post was submitted on 12 Jun 2024
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