Boeing Starliner launch delayed to at least May 17 for Atlas 5 rocket repair

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United Launch Alliance decided to replace a suspect valve in the Atlas 5 rocket's upper stage, delaying launch to late next week.

After analyzing data following a launch scrub Monday, United Launch Alliance managers decided to haul the Atlas 5 rocket carrying Boeing's Starliner astronaut ferry ship back to its processing facility to replace a suspect valve, delaying another launch try to at least May 17, NASA said in a blog post Tuesday.The new 'no-earlier-than' launch target from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station — 6:16 p.m.

It was certified for 200,000 open-close cycles. 'The oscillating behavior of the valve during prelaunch operations ultimately resulted in mission teams calling a launch scrub on May 6,' NASA said in a blog post. 'After the ground and flight crew safely egressed from Space Launch Complex-41, the ULA team successfully commanded the valve closed and the oscillations were temporarily dampened.'The oscillations then re-occurred twice during fuel removal operations.

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