{"id":31567,"date":"2024-09-01T13:28:24","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T20:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blinkbargain.com\/blog\/now-theres-a-creepy-sonar-like-sound-coming-through-one-of-starliners-speakers\/"},"modified":"2024-09-01T13:28:24","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T20:28:24","slug":"now-theres-a-creepy-sonar-like-sound-coming-through-one-of-starliners-speakers","status":"publish","type":"blog","link":"https:\/\/blinkbargain.com\/blog\/now-theres-a-creepy-sonar-like-sound-coming-through-one-of-starliners-speakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Now there\u2019s a creepy, sonar-like sound coming through one of Starliner\u2019s speakers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Starliner is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station and make its return trip to Earth uncrewed<\/a> in just a matter of days, but it apparently still has a few new mysteries left in it to throw at the team before it departs. On Saturday, astronaut Butch Wilmore alerted NASA\u2019s Mission Control about an unexplained \u201cstrange noise\u201d coming from a speaker in the spacecraft, which you can hear in an audio clip<\/a> of the conversation shared on a NASASpaceflight<\/em><\/a> forum by meteorologist Rob Dale (spotted by Ars Technica<\/em><\/a>). It starts at around the 45-second mark, ringing out on a steady beat. \u201cI don\u2019t know what\u2019s making it,\u201d Wilmore said.<\/p>\n After confirming they could hear the sound too, once Wilmore brought his mic over to the speaker, the flight controller in Houston said, \u201cIt was kind of like a pulsing noise, almost like a sonar ping.\u201d Wilmore then lets it play for about 20 seconds more before wrapping up the call. \u201cJust to make sure I\u2019m on the same page, this is emanating from the speaker in Starliner,\u201d Mission Control asked, \u201cyou don\u2019t notice anything else, any other noises, any weird configs in there?\u201d The astronaut notes that everything else seems normal.<\/p>\n It\u2019s still unclear what caused the sound. The Boeing spacecraft has been docked with the ISS since early June, and engineers have since had their hands full trying to get to the bottom of the issues that arose during its first crewed flight. When Starliner finally heads back to Earth on September 6, it\u2019ll be leaving its crew \u2014 Wilmore and NASA astronaut Suni Williams \u2014 behind on the ISS, where they\u2019ll continue to work for the next few months while they wait for a ride home from SpaceX<\/a> in February 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Trending Products<\/strong>
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