9:02 AM PT — NASA launched a press release on its findings relating to the unusual sound heard by astronaut Butch Willmore, stating, “A pulsing sound from a speaker in Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft heard by NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore aboard the Worldwide Area Station has stopped. The suggestions from the speaker was the results of an audio configuration between the house station and Starliner.”
The assertion continued, “The house station audio system is advanced, permitting a number of spacecraft and modules to be interconnected, and it is not uncommon to expertise noise and suggestions. The crew is requested to contact mission management once they hear sounds originating within the comm system. The speaker suggestions Wilmore reported has no technical affect to the crew, Starliner, or station operations, together with Starliner’s uncrewed undocking from the station no sooner than Friday, Sept. 6.”
As if being stranded in house for the foreseeable future wasn’t sufficient … one of many astronauts caught aboard the ISS simply despatched NASA audio of an ominous noise coming from their defective Boeing Starliner plane.
In audio first reported by Ars Technica, astronaut Butch Wilmore may be heard speaking with Johnson Area Middle in Houston … telling mission management, “I’ve received a query about Starliner. There is a unusual noise coming by way of the speaker … I do not know what’s making it.”
Mission management configured a manner for Butch to play the sound by way of the telephone … and after one failed try at listening to it, mission management confirmed, “Butch, that one got here by way of. It was sort of like a pulsating noise, nearly like a sonar ping.”
The recording was first captured and shared by Michigan-based meteorologist Rob Dale.
Butch performed the audio as soon as once more for good measure, telling NASA, “I’ll do it yet one more time and allow you to all scratch your heads and see for those who can work out what’s happening.”
Houston confirmed they are going to be passing alongside the recording and can let Butch know what they discover.
As we beforehand reported … Wilmore and fellow astronaut Suni Williams have been stranded on the Worldwide Area Station since June 6, as a result of Starliner’s thruster troubles and helium leaks … after what was presupposed to be a week-long keep.
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Starliner is scheduled to undock from the ISS and try and land again on Earth on autopilot.
As for Butch and Suni … the duo are actually set to return to Earth in February, 2025 — hitching a journey on one in all Elon Musk‘s SpaceX ships.
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