Watch Boeing’s Starliner capsule launch abort test at 9AM ET – Engadget

Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner capsule is able to raise a step nearer toward taking americans to orbit, and also you might maybe per chance depend on this step unfold first-hand. NASA and Boeing are streaming live protection of the Starliner’s pad abort test on November 4th at 9AM Jap. Fancy same tests, the Unusual Mexico dry bustle will verify whether the vessel can safely jettison itself (and importantly, astronauts) faraway from its host rocket if there is an emergency before liftoff. The four originate abort engines and control thrusters will dangle the spacecraft roughly a mile above the ground and a mile north of the test platform.