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A comment on Boeing Starliner updates: Spacecraft flies into wrong orbit, jeopardizing test. Parent comment

Re:Boeing Starliner updates: Spacecraft flies into wrong orb... by BurningFrog on Friday December 20, 2019 @10:29AM (#21844830)
When in stable orbit, I buy that argument.

But many things can go slightly wrong when firing all engines fighting your way up the atmosphere.

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Re:Boeing Starliner updates: Spacecraft flies into wrong orb... by lokedhs on Friday December 20, 2019 @11:19AM (#21845224)
That is true. In the Saturn V case, the guidance computer checked the actual location of the spacecraft and issued corrections that had accumulated due to precisely that.
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Re:Boeing Starliner updates: Spacecraft flies into wrong orb... by rory096 on Friday December 20, 2019 @11:36AM (#21845355)
Atlas V burn was nominal, this error didn't happen until the capsule was out of the atmosphere.
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Re:Boeing Starliner updates: Spacecraft flies into wrong orb... by willis936 on Friday December 20, 2019 @12:40PM (#21845863)
And even more things can go very wrong with more complicated control systems.
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