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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NASA and Boeing completed a checkpoint review of preparations for the Crew Flight Test mission on 2024-05-25.
Boeing is a member of the Blue Origin-led National Team developing the human lunar lander.
Boeing picked up two geostationary satellite orders in 2022.
Boeing is preparing to ship the fifth and sixth O3b mPower satellites to Florida 2023-05 for launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9.
Viasat expected the third ViaSat-3 to be shipped to Boeing for integration and to launch a little over a year after the second satellite’s schedules.
ViaSat developed the payload for each ViaSat-3 satellite internally and is using a Boeing 702-based chassis for the spacecraft.
The second ViaSat-3 satellite was undergoing final integration and tests at Boeing’s facilities ahead of a planned Atlas V launch by United Launch Alliance in fall 2023.
The Boeing Company in Arlington, Virginia received a 2022 ACO selection for a Complex Curvature Retractable Pin Tool Friction Stir Welding Pathfinder Campaign with NASA Marshall.
The Space Force awarded contracts in August to Millennium, a Boeing company, to produce Victus Nox and to Firefly Aerospace to launch the spacecraft.
Boeing unveiled the Protected Wideband Satellite design that features the Protected Tactical SATCOM Prototype payload hosted aboard the U.S. Space Force’s Wideband Global SATCOM-11 spacecraft.
Boeing and Northrop Grumman are developing competing PTS prototype payloads that will be evaluated in on-orbit demonstrations in 2025.
Boeing received a $605,000,000 contract in 2019 to build WGS-11, the 11th satellite in the WGS geostationary constellation.
Boeing designed a much larger version of the 702X bus called 702MP+ for the Viasat-3 high-capacity satcom constellation.
Boeing decided to host the PTS prototype payload aboard the WGS-11 satellite rather than deploy the PTS prototype on a dedicated satellite.
The first two of the 11 O3b mPower satellites Boeing is building for SES launched on a Falcon 9 in December.
Boeing unveiled a new version of the U.S. military’s Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite on 2023-04-13 that includes a new payload designed under a U.S. Space Force contract.
Boeing won a $191,000,000 contract in 2020 to develop a Protect Tactical Satcom (PTS) payload.
WGS-11 is built on Boeing’s 702X medium-size satellite bus that Boeing introduced in 2019 for the commercial and government markets.
SES selected the Boeing 702X bus to build its 11-satellite O3b mPower constellation in medium Earth orbit.
Boeing is contracted to deliver 11 O3b mPOWER satellites to SES.