Boeing is taking another charge against earnings of $250 million on its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew program as the company’s new leader vowed it will not walk away from troubled programs like…
I probably misremembered/misrepresented that. NASA would actually have to book more SpaceX flights to not have Starliner go back-to-back at this point.
The bigger question might be what Boeing’s refurb/turnaround time is, and whether they can even prep one of their two vehicles and a new service module in 5 months to support a back-to-back.
Why would NASA have an issue with this?
I probably misremembered/misrepresented that. NASA would actually have to book more SpaceX flights to not have Starliner go back-to-back at this point.
The bigger question might be what Boeing’s refurb/turnaround time is, and whether they can even prep one of their two vehicles and a new service module in 5 months to support a back-to-back.
Ah, I see. I hadn’t though of the launch cadence challenge from Boeing’s side, but I can see how it could be an issue.