Boeing is a major American aerospace company that operates in the space industry through its Defense, Space & Security division. It designs, manufactures, and sells space systems, including satellites, spacecraft, and rockets, for both commercial and military applications. Boeing is a key partner with NASA, contributing to programs like the International Space Station (ISS), the Space Launch System (SLS) rocket, and the development of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft for crewed missions to low Earth orbit.
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O3b mPOWER satellites are built by Boeing on the 702X bus and feature fully software-defined payloads.
Boeing is a partner to the Artemis missions.
The Centaur upper stage has been approved for use on crewed missions, including launches of Boeing’s Starliner on an Atlas V.
Both Boeing and SpaceX were commissioned to handle missions to the International Space Station more than a decade ago.
The investigation found that concern for the reputation of Boeing's Starliner clouded an earlier internal probe into the incident.
NASA labeled the 2024 test flight of Boeing's Starliner capsule a Type A mishap, the same classification as the Challenger and Columbia shuttle disasters.
NASA will continue to work with Boeing on Starliner test flights alongside its other partners undertaking test flights.
Boeing has made substantial progress on corrective actions for the technical challenges encountered on Starliner and has driven cultural changes across the team that align with the report's findings.
SES’s existing mPOWER MEO fleet is mostly full and three remaining mPOWER satellites from Boeing are needed on orbit.
SES’s existing mPOWER MEO fleet was mostly full and the three remaining mPOWER satellites from Boeing were needed on orbit.
Boeing’s Starliner experienced two uncrewed test missions with major issues: an initial uncrewed mission in December 2019 that never reached the ISS but landed safely, and a second uncrewed test in May 2022 that reached the ISS but had several critical flaws.
NASA and Boeing brought the Starliner spacecraft home without crew in September 2025 after months of examination following the CFT docking.
Mike Fincke served as astronaut office chief of NASA’s commercial crew branch between about 2014 and 2019 during the award and implementation of the final commercial crew development contracts to SpaceX and Boeing.
Mike Fincke participated in the original Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contracts award and worked on development of both SpaceX Crew Dragon and Boeing CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.
United Launch Alliance is a joint venture between Boeing and Lockheed Martin.
Mike Fincke accepted a prime crew slot on Boeing’s Crew Flight Test (CFT) in January 2019 and was later made backup on CFT and commander of Starliner-1.
NASA plans another uncrewed test of the Boeing CST-100 Starliner before authorizing additional astronauts on the spacecraft.
ASAP identified lessons emerging from Boeing’s Starliner Crew Flight Test.
An independent fault investigation concluded that Boeing’s CFT likely meets the criteria for either a Type A failure or a high-visibility close call at NASA.
The Boeing CST-100 Starliner launched on June 5, 2024 on its first crewed test flight to the International Space Station.