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Boeing's Starliner spacecraft detects leaks on journey to ISS (www.voanews.com)

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I hope we didn't assume the odds of each leak was an independent event. Same failure mode and maybe we have uncovered something systemic! Kind of scary

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Since the cause of the first leak was a defective rubber seal, it would have made sense to replace all of them. I'm pretty sure they didn't use different types of seals on each thruster port. But for that, they would have had to disassemble the spacecraft and that would have taken too long for the available launch windows.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago (1 children)

It's a good thing rubber seals have never caused any problems in spaceflight

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Is that a Challenger?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

It was a bang.