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  1. helium leak Helium leak delays Boeing's 1st Starliner astronaut launch to May 21 News By Mike Wall published 14 May 2024 Starliner's crewed debut had been targeted for Friday (May 17). Boeing's Starliner spacecraft and its Atlas V rocket roll off the launch pad and toward an assembly facility on May 8, 2024. (Image credit: NASA via X) The crewed debut of Boeing's Starliner capsule has been pushed back an additional four days. Starliner had been scheduled to lift off this Friday (May 17) on Crew Flight Test (CFT), a mission that will send NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore to the International Space Station (ISS) for a roughly eight-day stay. But that's no longer the plan. Teams detected a small helium leak in Starliner's service module and have pushed the target date back to May 21, Boeing announced in an update today (May 14). Starliner will launch atop a United Launch Alliance (ULA) Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, on Florida's Space Coast. The May 21 launch is scheduled for 4:43 p.m. EDT (2043 GMT); you can watch it live here at Space.com when the time comes. Today's news is the latest in a string of recent CFT delay announcements. The mission was originally supposed to lift off on May 6, but the team called that attempt off about two hours before launch after noticing a "buzzing" valve in the Atlas V's Centaur upper stage. Boeing, NASA and ULA initially pushed the launch target back to May 10, then delayed it to May 17 after determining that the troublesome valve needed to be replaced, an operation that required rolling the Atlas V off the pad to an assembly facility at Cape Canaveral. Get the Space.com Newsletter The troublesome valve was replaced and is behaving normally, Boeing representatives said in today's update. The newfound helium leak, they added, has been traced to a "flange on a single reaction control system thruster" in Starliner's service module. These thrusters don't burn helium, but the gas allows them to fire properly. "NASA and Boeing are developing spacecraft testing and operational solutions to address the issue," Boeing wrote in the update. "As a part of the testing, Boeing will bring the propulsion system up to flight pressurization just as it does prior to launch, and then allow the helium system to vent naturally to validate existing data and strengthen flight rationale." CFT will be the third flight for Starliner, after two uncrewed launches to the ISS. The capsule suffered several problems on its first mission, which lifted off in December 2019, and failed to meet up with the orbiting lab as planned. But Starliner succeeded on its second try, which launched in May 2022. CFT is a crewed shakeout cruise for the capsule; if all goes well on the upcoming mission, Starliner will be certified to fly NASA astronauts on long-duration missions to and from the ISS. Boeing holds a $4.2 billion contract with the space agency to do just that, which was signed in 2014. SpaceX got a similar deal at the same time, worth $2.6 billion. Elon Musk's company flew its equivalent of CFT in 2020 and is in the middle of its eighth operational, long-duration astronaut mission to the ISS for NASA.
  2. fuck espn fuck turner is this the 4th or 5th games with mavs/stars on at the same fucking time 90 minutes late after when they should have been starting FUCK FUCK FUCK them all
  3. fuck espn fuck turner is this the 4th or 5th games with mavs/stars on at the same fucking time 90 minutes late after when they should have been starting FUCK FUCK FUCK them all
  4. https://community.spaceweatherlive.com/topic/3212-may-2024-geomagnetic-storms-from-ar-13664-2/page/9/
  5. bump because search sux i scanned back 5 pages looking for an ai thread and welp here it is i encourage everyone to consume the post prior to mine if they did not at the time - i certainly missed it +++ i came here to post about this guy in oz that's using ai to remaster early videos to 4k: https://www.youtube.com/@Austech/featured he clearly has a thing for australian bands several of which i've never heard but who were quite prolific with video very early here are the ones i was most pleased to see "fixed"
  6. leave brittney alone! here kiddo, watch this, maybe it will cheer you up:
  7. welp, so far i have been totally wrong and i fully capitulate to taking crow up the ass, no lube, etc. sanctify me
  8. 3 hours since last check: Florida -13k Cali +3k England flat Manitoba enters the chat MB: 2836 ON: 2404 QE: 2235 AB: 1098 BC: 295 medline: steady yellow situation: nominal
  9. in 1835 old joe revelated jesus' return in 1891 the first 4 generations of brethren lived a millenial reality as "the chosen people" "living in the end times" whose blood was transmogrified during the first temple endowment ceremony, after which they viewed themselves as a "race" distinct from other anglos (you and I) who they referred to and continue to refer to as "gentiles" the "persecution" they gave and got had little to do with their prepping mentality they were shitty planners until they got communism in deseret; they had 6 months to plan the evacuation of nauvoo and botched that; 100 died that winter in ecampments strung across iowa on the trail to winter quarters (omaha) where they lost 600 over 2 winters (46/47 & 47/48); then they lost almost 2000 emigrating to deseret from 47 to 69 the greatest single fuckup in their history was the willie and martin handcart disaster where 210 of 980 died of starvation and exposure pulling handcarts in sub-zero temperatures once they were settled in deseret, several failed harvests preceded the 54/55 drought due to light snowfall during the winter of 1854 which led to the 1856 disaster where an infestation of grasshoppers and crickets destroyed the remaining crops and zion lost 1/3rd their cattle leading to mass scarcity for flour and beef; this privation was the crucible for incubation of the mormon reformation, which set match to flame to the "burning bosoms" needed to carry out the orders from headquarters and do the job at the meadows the following year headquarters ordered a record harvest be cached away in the mountains to sustain the resistance to the "invading" US army in the coming winter, while they waited for jesus to come and there you have the prepping they've been doing it since 1858 abracadabra
  10. In the 80s there was a crude shack ("shanty") built to protest apartheid on the west mall that stood intact for a long fucking time, maybe several years +++ the IT discipline of Service Management has a concept called "root-cause analysis" i propose the root cause of the reaction to the "anti-semitic" protests is the fact that israel has brain-washed the population of the united states to believe that questioning israel 100% directly equates to attacking the jewish religion and in the wake of the holocaust that messaging was sold to the us populace hook line and sinker for the rest of the 20th century only today, with the parents of ww2 children almost entirely gone, are there cracks in the dike of consensus reality, despite israel's history of terrorism which is never reported, taught or discussed in the us media or education system and why is that? it's the same root-cause reason hartzell and wheels came heavy with pertinacity and forecast: they got a call
  11. england and quebec both -1000 florida steady texas -100 standing down for the mavs game
  12. also on the NOAA crowdmag global map, there is a line of contributors from southwest greece, to tunisia, coastal algeria and spain next to gibraltar, and they all remain "yellow-orange" for the last hour since i started watching that latitude is north of us, and as the eartn rotates, any sudden jump to red for those locations is our 6-hour canary
  13. florida just dropped to 78k england only up by eleven (11) to 3406 quebec only up by forty eight (48) to 2142 215pm situation nominal go mavs
  14. i know jack about electrical engineering.... reading the quebec 89 wiki, they installed "series compensation" to stop future events from taking down their high voltage lines here is the top ercot result on "series compensation".... it's a .ppt deck from 2014 and i can't figure out we have "series compensation" on our ERCOT transmission lines.... anyway this is a .ppt https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.ercot.com/files/docs/2014/06/02/series_compensation_and_ssr_concepts_2014_ots.ppt&ved=2ahUKEwi4upeaoYaGAxU94skDHYOVAGMQFnoECCIQAQ&usg=AOvVaw3lFyqxwTl5_43FaoHQqEGo sites i'm following today: data updates hourly: https://noaa.maps.arcgis.com/apps/instant/slider/index.html?appid=37da82c22ecf4a51b9acefa5309f9872 data updates every 10 minutes https://poweroutage.com/uk https://poweroutage.com/ca https://poweroutage.us/ the uk jumped from 2k to 3k customers without power in the last 15 minutes, and florida has an outage of 86000 texas, california & mississippi currently sitting at >6k out
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