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NASA examining options for another Starliner test flight (spacenews.com)
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Hmm, the only human-rated rocket which Starliner can fly on is the Atlas V, which has ceased production, and all remaining launches have been sold. If another test flight is required before Starliner-1, Boeing would have to purchase one of the Atlas V launches slated for Project Kuiper, or else they cannot fly all six operational Starliner missions...

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Lmao. Strainer/Kuiper on Falcon 9 confirmed.

/s

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

Not entirely /s. Kuiper on Falcon 9 was confirmed over a year ago.

Starliner (Strainer?) on Falcon 9 would violate NASA's dissimilar redundancy requirements, but if the other options are Starliner not flying at all, or human-rating Vulcan, then maybe it could happen?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 hours ago

For what it's worth, the last two Cygnus cargo ships had to fly on Falcon 9s because they ran out of Antares rockets.