With the Crew Access Arm retracted from the capsule, and the Rocket on internal power, the mission control and support crew have given the go for launch. T-Minus 4 Minutes and 30 Seconds now
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T-Minus 35 Seconds, and the final launch countdown has commenced
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And we have Liftoff!
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Cool rocket I guess
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21 Minutes into the flight now, and both AV-082ās First and Second Stages have separated from Starliner, which is now coasting as it prepares to fire its Service Module thrusters as the key part of its Orbital Insertion! Alongside, first images from the launch have come out, like this great shot from United Launch Alliance!
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With 21 hours having elapsed in flight so far, Starliner has begun its approach to the International Space Station! Just a couple minutes ago, the capsuleās Docking Lights were turned on remotely from a position on the station, ensuring that the space station can take manual control of the capsule if necessary. Starliner is currently scheduled to dock with the ISS at the Harmony Forward port at 2310 UTC.
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Starliner is now in visual range of the International Space Station! Now only being a few kilometers away, we have just over 2 hours until docking occurs at the aforementioned Harmony Forward Port. This photo was just taken by Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, a member of Expedition 67 currently aboard the station. That small silver dot is Starliner as it makes its approach!
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Starliner is now reaching its final hold point, and will spend the next 45 minutes here, now awaiting its new 2350 UTC Docking Time. Current distance from the station is approximately 28 meters.
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Starliner has commenced its final approach, within 10 meters now.
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picture be looking like a 1983 video
Yeah, apparently the ISS only has 480pā¦ironic for what is the greatest piece of global engineering the world has seen
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Iām starting to think that the 480p was on purposeā¦ There is absolutely no way that they couldnāt manage more than that in this day and age on the ISS.
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Great news @barbadian, I found a non-1983 style picture of the docking! Taken by Cosmonaut Sergey Korsakov, another member of the Expedition 67 crew.
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much better
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Starlinerās hatch has opened, allowing for the first astronauts to enter the spacecraft in orbit! Astronauts Bob Hines and Kjell Lindgren shot a video inside the capsule, giving a tour of the interior of the spacecraft, which can you can watch down below.
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Starliner has just returned to Earth, making a safe deorbit burn and landing, marking the conclusion of a successful OFT-2 mission!
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Other than the thruster failure (something seemingly common in the early life of some space capsules) and the docking ring issue, Iād say this was a pretty good success under Boeingās belt!
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