Rocket launch: People walk along the beach as a rocket carrying Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner capsule prepares for launch at Cape Canaveral, Florida. The capsule had been due to blast off atop an Atlas V rocket flown by the United Launch Alliance. — AFP
SEATTLE: Boeing Co scrubbed the launch of its CST-100 Starliner to the International Space Station due to a system glitch, a fresh setback for the US aerospace company following the vehicle’s botched 2019 debut.
Boeing engineers ruled out “a number of potential causes, including software,” but were still working to understand the source of “unexpected valve position indications” in the propulsion system, Boeing said in a statement on Tuesday evening.
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