NASA is planning to significantly delay the launch of the Crew 9 mission to the International Space Station due to ongoing concerns about the Starliner spacecraft currently attached to the station… Officials are contemplating moving the Crew-9 mission from its current date of August 18 to September 24, a significant slip…
However, there is also another surprising reason for the delay—the need to update Starliner’s flight software. Three separate, well-placed sources have confirmed to Ars that the current flight software on board Starliner cannot perform an automated undocking from the space station and entry into Earth’s atmosphere.
So…they are going to implement Plan Steve, and jettison that piece of junk? That sentence confirms the thing is unfit to fly and they don’t dare ask the crew to bring it back, so they need to invent an automated solution.
It has to. The issue is getting a grip on MBAs. The country is retooling. Engineers need to make the decisions. This is not about offshoring any longer. Irony Boeing was not doing as much offshoring. The business climate is changing.
Engineers are befuddled as to what is going on with the Starliner thrusters. NASA says that the astronauts might not return until 2025 on a SpaceX spacecraft.
No question that finance is very much part of airplane manufacture. Boeing has always been a high wire act. Survival requires new airplane design to succeed because of the investment required.
MBA with an engineering background is probably the best you can do. But multidisciplinary team with good balance is essential.