Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, 'Out There,' was published on Nov. 13, 2018.
CFT mission was originally supposed to stay docked to the orbiting lab for about a week, but NASA announced over the weekend that the mission will lastbut eventually deemed to pose little risk to full mission success. Four more have now been discovered while Starliner is in space, but that isn't necessarily cause for alarm.
"Only seven hours of free-flight time is needed to perform a normal end of mission, and Starliner currently has enough helium left in its tanks to support 70 hours of free flight activity following undocking," they added. Mission team members continue to analyze that thruster's past performance, and they plan to put it and the others to the test near the end of the mission.
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