(Reuters) – Boeing (NYSE:) and NASA said on Sunday their teams were preparing to launch the new Starliner space capsule on June 5 after canceling the first test launch attempt on Saturday.
The Starliner capsule was ready to lift off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday before the ground system computer activated an automatic abort command that stopped the launch sequence.
NASA said its teams worked through the night to evaluate ground support equipment on the launch pad, which was experiencing problems during the countdown, and identified a problem with the ground power supply inside one of the landing gears that powers a subset of computer cards that control various system functions.
The landing gear containing the faulty ground power unit was removed, visually inspected and replaced with a spare landing gear, the space agency said.
The first crewed flight of the CST-200 Starliner to the International Space Station (ISS) with two astronauts on board remains a key milestone for Boeing as it tries to take a larger share of NASA’s lucrative business, now dominated by Elon Musk’s SpaceX.
Once launched, Starliner is expected to arrive at the space station after a flight of about 24 hours and dock with the orbiting research station approximately 250 miles (402 km) above Earth.