Starliner to Launch on Atlas V on May 6, 2024: When new Booster?

[brockrwood]

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft will launch to the ISS on May 6, 2024. It will launch on a ln Atlas V booster and a Centaur second stage.

https://news.satnews.com/2024/04/29...-nasa-astronauts-wilmore-and-williams-to-iss/

Then Atlas V booster has 17 more flights and then it will be retired.

When will the Starliner be launched on a different rocket? Will that be the Vulcan-Centaur rocket?

 

[Art Upton]

Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft will launch to the ISS on May 6, 2024. It will launch on a ln Atlas V booster and a Centaur second stage.

https://news.satnews.com/2024/04/29...-nasa-astronauts-wilmore-and-williams-to-iss/

Then Atlas V booster has 17 more flights and then it will be retired.

When will the Starliner be launched on a different rocket? Will that be the Vulcan-Centaur rocket?

No Aerodynamics on the SpaceCraft to Rocket Adapter ?

 

[Antares JS]

All of the six contracted Starliner flights will be on Atlas. We'll see if there end up being more than six before worrying about a new booster.

 

[Lord Rory Gin]

Mission scrubbed for today. A stuck oxygen valve on the 2nd stage is the issue. No announcement yet of reschedule. Crew to be disembarked shortly.

 

[aerostadt]

The Atlas V is being rolled back to the vertical assembly facility. The earliest the launch can be is May 17th.

https://spaceflightnow.com/2024/05/...rst-crewed-mission-to-may-17-at-the-earliest/