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Can They Prevent the Starliner From Colliding With the Space Station?

By Brian Wang

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Aug 05, 2024
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NASA is worried that multiple small reaction control system thrusters could fail while the Starliner is near the space station and cause a disaster. There are combinations of Starliner thrusters failures would make it become uncontrollable and cause a collision with the space station. The thrusters are needed later in the flight back to Earth to set up …

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