Boeing’s Starliner check flight scrubbed once more after maintain in remaining countdown

Enlarge / NASA commander Butch Wilmore exits the Starliner spacecraft Saturday following the scrubbed launch try.

A pc controlling the Atlas V rocket’s countdown triggered an computerized maintain lower than 4 minutes previous to liftoff of Boeing’s industrial Starliner spacecraft Saturday, protecting the crew check flight on the bottom at the very least just a few extra days.

NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been already aboard the spacecraft when the countdown stopped attributable to an issue with a floor laptop. “Maintain. Maintain. Maintain,” a member of Atlas V launch crew referred to as out on an audio feed.

With the maintain, the mission missed an instantaneous launch alternative at 12:25 pm EDT (16:25 UTC), and later Saturday, NASA introduced groups will forego a launch alternative Sunday. The subsequent likelihood to ship Starliner into orbit can be 10:52 am EDT (14:52 UTC) Wednesday. The mission has one launch alternative each one-to-two days, when the Worldwide House Station’s orbital monitor strikes again into correct alignment with the Atlas V rocket’s launch pad in Florida.