@arstechnica
"After some initial troubleshooting, the leak rate grew to approximately 70 psi per minute."
WHAT?
This seems to be deliberate obscurity.
If the /pressure/ drops by 70 psi per minute, how high is the initial pressure?
What is the VOLUME of helium lost?
How much is that of the total amount of helium aboard?
Insist on making this flight uncrewed, and pay for it since it is their decision. If things go well--which is unlikely, given all of the problems in both OFT-1 and 2--great. If not, lives saved.
Review their multi-layer review process that let 2 critical software bugs slip through to OFT-1, and now has let major hardware issues slip through to this flight. Something is deeply wrong with the Boeing / NASA review process, and it needs to be fixed.