Doug Loverro, the head of human exploration for NASA, said he could not speak to what, if any, connection there might be between the Starliner’s software problems and the issues with the 737 Max. ADADBut he said the discovery of widespread issues with the Starliner software indicated “we have a real breakdown of the software process.”"We don’t know how many software errors we have — if we have just two or many hundreds,” Loverro said. After discovering the issue with the timer, Boeing officials “went hunting” for any other software problems while the Starliner was in flight, Chilton said. Investigators have identified the cause of the problems and have a sense of how to fix them, NASA said. It is unclear whether NASA will force Boeing to redo the test flight without astronauts before allowing crews to fly on Starliner.

Source: Washington Post February 07, 2020 23:49 UTC