{"id":7473,"date":"2024-09-03T15:05:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T15:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/03\/strange-noises-coming-from-faulty-boeing-spacecraft-arent-serious-says-nasa\/"},"modified":"2024-09-03T15:05:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T15:05:54","slug":"strange-noises-coming-from-faulty-boeing-spacecraft-arent-serious-says-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailywashingtoninsider.com\/index.php\/2024\/09\/03\/strange-noises-coming-from-faulty-boeing-spacecraft-arent-serious-says-nasa\/","title":{"rendered":"Strange noises coming from faulty Boeing spacecraft aren\u2019t serious, says NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Strange noises that were heard coming from the Boeing Starliner currently docked on the International Space Station (ISS) are not serious, says NASA.<\/p>\n

Astronaut Butch Wilmore, who has been stuck on the ISS<\/strong> with his colleague Suni since early July because of Starliner’s problems, told mission control he could hear “strange” sounds coming from the spacecraft over the weekend.<\/p>\n

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“I don’t know what’s making it,” he said to his colleagues back on Earth.<\/p>\n

He asked them to “scratch your heads and see if you can figure out what’s going on”, asking them to “call us if you figure it out”.<\/p>\n

Mission control noted it sounded like a “pulsing noise, almost like a sonar ping”.<\/p>\n

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Now, NASA<\/strong> has confirmed the noise has stopped and is not anything to worry about.<\/p>\n

“A pulsing sound from a speaker in Boeing’s<\/strong> Starliner spacecraft heard by NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore aboard the International Space Station has stopped,” said the agency in a statement.<\/p>\n

“The feedback from the speaker was the result of an audio configuration between the space station and Starliner.”<\/p>\n

The audio system in the space station connects multiple spacecraft and modules.<\/p>\n

“It is common to experience noise and feedback,” said NASA.<\/p>\n

Crucially, the space agency said the noises will have no impact on the crew or space station operations, including Friday’s planned departure of Starliner from the ISS.<\/p>\n

The beleaguered spacecraft has been stuck at the space station since July. It was the first manned trip for Boeing’s Starliner, which has been mired in difficulties since its inception.<\/p>\n

But because of multiple system failures, the spacecraft is unable to bring home the two astronauts it ferried up there.<\/p>\n

Instead, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams will catch a lift with a SpaceX craft in February 2025.<\/p>\n

They only expected to be up there for eight days; by the time they leave, it will have been almost eight months.<\/p>\n

The spacecraft itself is expected to make its way back to Earth from Friday, although it will not be carrying any astronauts.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

This post appeared first on sky.com<\/div>\n

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