BeechTalk - BT

Username Protected · **Posted:** 03 Sep 2024, 21:47

Latest problem resolved.

“A pulsing sound from a speaker in Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft heard by NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore aboard the International Space Station has stopped. The feedback from the speaker was the result of an audio configuration between the space station and Starliner,” NASA’s Commercial Crew program wrote Monday on X, formerly Twitter. “The space station audio system is complex, allowing multiple spacecraft and modules to be interconnected, and it is common to experience noise and feedback.”

Vince

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Sep 2024, 08:47

Return date has been set for Friday the 6th, undocking at 18:00 EDT [2200Z]. The actual re-entry is scheduled for around midnight Eastern.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Sep 2024, 08:53

that's a shame, the landing in the desert hopefully could have been filmed if it were in daylight

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Sep 2024, 09:18

Username Protected wrote:

Return date has been set for Friday the 6th, undocking at 18:00 EDT [2200Z]. The actual re-entry is scheduled for around midnight Eastern.

Press Conference / News release on a Saturday afternoon.
Starliner return the middle of a Friday night..

I’m certain it’s all orbital mechanics but those are also good times to limit scrutiny.
Friday News Dump I think they call it?

I’m sure it will land just fine.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 04 Sep 2024, 09:36

I think that odds are it will be a largely uneventful return, and I fully expect someone to have thermal imaging and tracking on it from reentry to landing. Will it be flood lit? Maybe not, but I’d expect some decent black and white negative imagery all of the way to the surface.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 06 Sep 2024, 15:11

Undocking scheduled for 6PM Eastern. Good luck.

Username Protected · **Posted:** 06 Sep 2024, 18:19

So far so good.

Am I the only one who finds it amusing that Boeing named this Starliner “Calypso”?

You know, Calypso, the Greek Nymph who kept Odysseus trapped on her island until the gods pressured her to release him?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 06 Sep 2024, 18:25

Username Protected wrote:

So far so good.

Am I the only one who finds it amusing that Boeing named this Starliner “Calypso”?

You know, Calypso, the Greek Nymph who kept Odysseus trapped on her island until the gods pressured her to release him?

Where are you watching?

Username Protected · **Posted:** 06 Sep 2024, 18:32

NASA had a live stream on YouTube. I’m sure there were others. Give it a few minutes and you can probably pull up a replay. Spoiler alert: it was a yawner. Everything went as planned.

The re-entry is scheduled for midnight EDT / 0400 Z. Put “Starliner” in the YouTube search box and it should give you a few options. Be sure to look for a live feed.