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Boeing Starliner officials may know ‘root cause’ of issues with astronaut flight (www.cnn.com)

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Heat building up inside the thrusters may be causing Teflon seals to bulge, restricting the flow of propellant.

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[-] verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago

Thanks for the abstract. Is Boeing paying for the extra docking hours at the ISS? Isn't the docking schedule pretty important to ISS operations? I figured it's like a train station: precision and efficiency above all, otherwise arrivals stack up and cause cascade failures?

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