NASA and Boeing target new launch date for next Starliner flight test blogs.nasa.gov

The launch of Starliner’s second uncrewed flight test, part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program, will be no earlier than March 25. Boeing’s Orbital Flight Test-2 is a critical developmental milestone on the company’s path to fly crew missions for NASA to the International Space Station.

Boeing also recently completed the formal requalification of Starliner’s OFT-2 flight software and will complete an end-to-end simulation of the OFT-2 test flight using flight hardware and final versions of Starliner’s flight software to model the vehicle’s expected behavior before the flight.

The OFT-2 mission will launch Starliner on a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket from Space Launch Complex-41 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, dock to the space station and return to land in the western United States about a week later as part of an end-to-end test flight to prove the system is ready to fly crew.

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