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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Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman are expected to complete prototype designs for their ESS concepts by 2025.
Boeing and Northrop Grumman are expected to launch prototype PTS payloads in 2024 for on-orbit demonstrations.
Hawaiian Airlines expects to receive its first Boeing 787-9s in 2023.
Hawaiian Airlines ordered 10 Boeing 787-9s in 2008 to serve as its new flagship airplane for medium to long-haul flights.
Boeing had expected to start delivering Hawaiian Airlines’ 787-9s in 2021.
There are no plans to offer Starlink service on the Boeing 717 aircraft that Hawaiian Airlines uses for short flights between the Hawaiian Islands.
NASA’s Commercial Crew Program buys crew transportation services to the International Space Station from SpaceX and Boeing, which Astranis cites as an ideal partnership model.
General Dynamics Mission Systems delivered the 1,000th Tri-band radome to Boeing for line-fit installation on commercial and military aircraft.
The Boeing Tri-band radome is used aboard Boeing 737, 777, 787 Dreamliner, and C-17 aircraft.
General Dynamics Mission Systems has produced the Boeing Tri-band radome since 2016.
SpaceX planned to start launching 11 Boeing-built O3b mPower satellites in 2021, then in the first quarter of 2022, before a delay pushed the first batch into the second quarter of 2022.
A late-May launch of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on a second uncrewed test flight called OFT-2 is planned to follow the Crew-3 return.
Boeing completed the PTES program’s first over-the-air forward-link demonstration using a PTW modem in August 2021 with the U.S. Space Force.
Boeing expanded partnerships with Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Microsoft on 2022-04-06 through multi-year agreements.
Orbital Reef was unveiled in October 2021 by Blue Origin and Sierra Space as part of a partnership that includes Boeing and Redwire Space.
Boeing continues to build large, high-throughput geostationary communications satellites for customers including Viasat and Pasifik Satelit Nusantara of Indonesia.
Boeing’s El Segundo facility is 1 million square feet (92,903 square meters).
Millennium Space Systems is setting up a dedicated small satellite factory within a 93,000-square-meter Boeing manufacturing plant where Boeing has produced 300 satellites.
Boeing’s 93,000-square-meter manufacturing plant has produced 300 satellites.
The Boeing and Millennium factory applies advanced and additive manufacturing techniques, including 3D printing entire space-qualified satellite buses.