Boeing Starliner's Launch and Leak Issues

On June 6, TapTechNews reported that at 22:52 Beijing time on June 5, Boeing's Starliner spacecraft was launched into space atop a ULA Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida to carry out its first manned test flight mission, sending two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station.

The Johnson Space Center under NASA tweeted that the team had detected three helium leak points on the spacecraft. One of them had been discussed before the flight and a management plan was developed.

Moreover, two leak points were newly discovered after the spacecraft entered orbit, and the two affected helium valves have been shut, and currently, the spacecraft remains stable.

Boeing's Starliner was originally scheduled to be launched on June 1. With only 3 minutes and 50 seconds left until the planned lift-off, the rocket's computer initiated a pause program.

As previously reported by TapTechNews, the ULA (United Launch Alliance) team discovered a problem where a single ground power supply in one of the three redundant chassis failed, and then the chassis containing the faulty ground power unit was removed and replaced with a spare chassis.