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Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner astronaut space taxi test
vehicle descends on the end of two parachutes during the Nov. 4, 2019 Pad Abort Test for NASA’s
Commercial Crew Program. The Starliner’s heat
shield can be seen falling away beneath the vehicle. Airbags then inflated as planned in preparation for landing in
the New Mexico desert at White Sands. Credit: Boeing
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Ken Kremer - - For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM
CAPE CANAVERAL, FL – A missing pin connecting lines between a pilot parachute and a main parachute caused the clearly visible failure of the 3rd parachute to deploy from Boeing’s Starliner space taxi during the Pad Abort Test with a test version of the vehicle this week on Monday, Nov. 4 – a critical test of the emergency abort system that was otherwise fully successful, Boeing officials said at a media briefing today Nov. 7.
The “lack of secure connection between the pilot chute and the main chute lanyard” was the “root cause” of the non-deployment of one of the three of main parachutes from the Starliner capsule during the Nov. 4 Pad Abort Test, Boeing’s John Mulholland and commercial crew vice president confirmed during a Nov. 7 media conference call with reporters, including Space UpClose.
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