Neviem ci sledujete sagu Boeing Starliner. Zaciatkom juna vyviezol 2 astronautov na testovacom lete na ISS a o tyzden sa mali vratit spat. Uz su tam 2 mesiace a, slusne povedane, nevyzera to dobre.
Ten stav zhrnul jeden diskutujuci na nasaspaceflight fore takto:
1. A spacecraft that is potentially unsafe to perform a crewed reentry is docked to the ISS.
2. That same spacecraft can only be undocked manually from inside by crew.
3. If they do that (which Boeing is desperately trying to convince NASA to do), that crew will be unable to anything but attempt the potentially unsafe reentry.
4. That same spacecraft has a non zero chance of becoming unstable and crashing back into the ISS, endangering not only the crew onboard her, but also every astronaut and cosmonaut onboard the station.
5. The software fix and upload to correct the undocking problem could take as much as 4 weeks to accomplish.
6. Even if that works, the thrusters on the SM are still funky and, until demonstrated otherwise, are unreliable.
Did I miss anything?
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Na ISS su 2 dokovacie porty. A oba su teraz obsadene. Aby poslali zachranny Crew Dragon, tak musia oddokovat Starliner. A to teraz bez posadky nevedia. A do tych 4 tyzdnov, co by mala trvat uprava softwaru na automaticke oddokovanie, im mozu lahnut
baterky v Starlineri.
Keby odo mna chcel niekto co znamena vyraz "clusterf*ck" tak mu opisem toto.