National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has explained the reasons behind the mysterious noises coming from faulty Boeing Starliner spacecraft docked at the International Space Station (ISS). The US space agency said the pulsing sound coming from the Starliner was the result of an audio configuration between the space station and the spacecraft.
Taking to microblogging platform X (formerly known as Twitter), NASA Commercial Crew said,” A pulsing sound from a speaker in Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft heard by NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore aboard the International Space Station has stopped. The feedback from the speaker was the result of an audio configuration between the space station and Starliner.”
The space agency said, “The space station audio system is complex, allowing multiple spacecraft and modules to be interconnected, and it is common to experience noise and feedback.”
NASA said the speaker feedback Wilmore reported has no technical impact to the crew, Starliner, or station operations, including Starliner’s uncrewed undocking from the station no earlier than Friday, September 6, 2024.