news

한어Русский языкEnglishFrançaisIndonesianSanskrit日本語DeutschPortuguêsΕλληνικάespañolItalianoSuomalainenLatina

xinhua news agency, los angeles, september 2 (reporter tan jingjing) according to us media reports, astronauts on boeing's "starliner" spacecraft to the international space station recently heard a strange pulse sound from the spacecraft and contacted the mission control center in houston for help. nasa said on the 2nd that the pulse sound heard by the astronauts was due to the audio configuration between the spacecraft and the space station, and it has now stopped.

nasa posted on social media x that american astronaut barry wilmore heard that the pulse sound from the speaker of the "starliner" spacecraft had stopped. this sound was caused by the audio configuration between the space station and the "starliner". the audio system of the international space station is very complex, allowing multiple spacecraft and modules to be interconnected, so feedback noise often occurs. astronauts are required to contact the mission control center when they hear sounds from the communication system.

the article stated that the speaker feedback noise heard by wilmore had no technical impact on the operation of the astronauts, the starliner or the space station, including the plan for the starliner to detach from the international space station and return to earth without humans no earlier than september 6.

on june 5, american astronauts wilmore and williams were launched from the cape canaveral space force base in florida on the starliner, and arrived at the international space station on june 6. the spacecraft was originally scheduled to leave the space station and return to earth on june 14, but due to problems such as thruster failure and helium leakage, the return time has been repeatedly postponed. nasa announced on august 30 that the starliner plans to leave the international space station and return to earth on september 6. the two astronauts will return to earth in february next year on the dragon spacecraft of the us space exploration technology company.