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Patricia Sanders, who chairs ASAP, said at a meeting that the panel sees continued progress and a large amount of work to be done before the flights.
One of the issues delaying the schedule is a problem with the abort engine system of Boeing‘s Starliner spacecraft, identified during a recent hot-fire test.
Additionally, SpaceX is working to redesign the Falcon 9 rocket’s composite overwrapped pressure vessels that store helium in propellant tanks, following a two-year-old incident that led to a rocket’s destruction.
The company is also addressing potentially dangerous anomalies in the Falcon 9âs Merlin 1D engine.