Updates Boeing's CST-100 Starliner

[GLS]

SRB sep!

 

[Urwumpe]

Trajectory looks good, next up is staging and centaur ignition.

 

[TheShuttleExperience]

And staging. Amazing. That's half the battle. I am very happy for sunny and Butch.

 

[GLS]

Staging and Centaur ignition!

 

[GLS]

Centaur now steering.

 

[TheShuttleExperience]

Centaur now steering.

Yeah. Nice smooth engine gimballing.

 

[GLS]

Flight azimuth 49º.... it seems that they are hugging the east coast to be closer to rescue in case of abort.

 

[GLS]

MECO!

 

[Urwumpe]

MECO! (Or SECO?)

 

[GLS]

192x75.5x51.621

 

[TheShuttleExperience]

And "free fall". Welcome on orbit! Whish I could be up there too.

 

[GLS]

Separation!

 

[TheShuttleExperience]

Nice, they show the orbit PFD. Guess it's the same one Butch is looking at?

 

[Urwumpe]

The checklist view on top is nice, I think I will steal that idea.

 

[TheShuttleExperience]

Butch officially welcomes ULA to the family of manned space flight I guess he (and Suni) is (are) very excited.

 

[TheShuttleExperience]

The PFD view they present on NASA TV seems to be the original one from Starliner.



Too bad we don't have any manuals yet. Would be really interesting to know about the software and systems operation.

 

[GLS]

https://twitter.com/x/status/1798371138231509302

 

[Urwumpe]

That there is no view of the crew inside until docking is a pretty downer, Starliner is really a pretty minimal backup.

 

[GLS]

Good burn!

 

[Urwumpe]

Good orbit insertion burn, no residuals!