NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore’s Starliner capsule was reported as Weird Sounds Heard Over The Weekend. These were identified as audio error.
NASA said on social networking site X that the feedback from the speaker was an audio interaction made between the space station and the Starliner.
“A pulsing sound from a speaker in Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft, heard by NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore aboard the International Space Station, has stopped. The feedback from the speaker was the result of an audio configuration between the space station and Starliner,” said NASA via harassment to its @Commercial_Crew account.
As per the information available, NASA operates broad audio setups of space stations connecting multiple spacecraft and modules, that usually come with noise and feedback. Unusual sounds in space and other environments are always communicating to mission control by astronauts.
The feedback sound remained neutral on any impact the crew, the Starliner or the station operations including Starliner’s scheduled uncrewed undocking of the ISS on September 6, was going to have.
First, Barry Wilmore reported the sound to Mission Control in Houston, Texas, and put a phone to the speaker so they could hear it as well. Following this and other pieces of troubleshooting, Mission Control acknowledged the sound and conceded that it was “a pulsating noise, almost like a sonar ping,” and agreed to look for even more.
Thanks to the successful flight of the Starliner’s flight test, which took place on June 6, 2024. Astronauts Wilmore and Sunita Williams were able to reach the ISS which was faced with problems such as helium leaks and problems with the thrusters. It was originally scheduled to be an eight-day mission, but they have now remained for nearly three months and counting. They will, however, return to earth in February 2025 on board SpaceX’s Dragon capsule together with NASA’s Crew 9.
Addressing the incident that caused the noise, The Launch Pad founder Zac Aubert attributed to Fox News, “‘For lots of us it was, oh, here we go again. Today is another day and with it another starliner event.’ I don’t know how it was to be on board the station and hear somebody down the corridor making noise like that. Probably it was something quite strange but I am glad it turned out all right since the only thing that went wrong was that the program was simply misconfigured.”
Nasa administrator Bill Nelson stressed how crucial safety is into the equations while quoting as reported by Fox News, “Space travel, however routine and safe, now or in the future, has inherent dangers. A test flight is, by definition, neither safe nor normal. The reason why Butch and Suni remain on the International Space Station and we fly Boeing’s Starliner back without crew is because of our belief in safety which is our value and our North Star, our hope. Both the NASA and Boeing teams have made me thankful by performing all the wonderful and intricate tasks that they did.”
NASA said last week that the mission with which the Starliner capsule altogether is supposed to fly Seb’s fantasies would take back the capsule back to Earth is going to be as early not later than September 06, 2024.
