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 won a 2020 contract worth $191,000,000 to design a payload for the Protected Tactical Satcom (PTS) program.
Boeing’s Millennium Space Systems delivered the Wide Field of View payload to a launch processing facility at Cape Canaveral, Florida in February.
Starliner technicians worked on the Orbital Flight Test-2 spacecraft in the high bay of Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on 2022-01-13.
Delays in the development of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner prompted NASA to procure additional commercial crew missions from SpaceX.
Crew-6, the last of the originally contracted SpaceX post-certification missions, could fly in the spring of 2023 depending on the status of Boeing’s Starliner.
The OIG estimated a per-seat cost of $90,000,000 for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner under Boeing’s CCtCap contract.
Boeing and the U.S. Space Force completed WGS-11+ critical design review in late 2021, launching the program’s production phase.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Boeing a $605,000,000 contract for WGS-11+ in October 2019.
Boeing is building WGS-11+ at its factory in El Segundo, California.
Each Inmarsat I-6 satellite has solar arrays that open to a full 47 m (46.9 m) width, giving a wingspan similar to a Boeing 767.
Dream Chaser was originally proposed as a crewed vehicle and won initial rounds of commercial crew awards from NASA before losing the 2014 contract competition to Boeing and SpaceX.
The Air Force’s 2018 budget request did not include funding for WGS satellites beyond the 10 already ordered from Boeing.
U.S. Space Systems Command is buying WGS-11+, which is being developed by Boeing and is projected to launch in 2024.
The U.S. Air Force awarded Boeing a $605,000,000 contract in April 2019 to design and build WGS-11+.
Boeing, Lockheed Martin, SpaceX, Blue Origin, Airbus OneWeb Satellites, and Made In Space have established or expanded employment and facilities in Florida in recent years.
As part of a 2021 market survey, NASA received a capability statement from Boeing showing that a cargo version of CST-100 Starliner would be well below the CRS2 contract requirement of 2,500 kg per mission and would require redesign work to carry cargo.
Viasat delayed the first ViaSat-3 satellite it is building in partnership with Boeing until late summer due to impacts related to COVID-19.
About 95% of payload units on the second ViaSat-3 satellite have been installed at Viasat’s facilities ahead of being shipped to Boeing.
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and NASA’s Orion also use large ringsail parachutes but with different configurations.
Viasat is designing ViaSat-3 payloads for a satellite bus that Boeing is providing.