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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The first ViaSat-3 payload was being prepared for thermal vacuum testing at Boeing as part of Viasat’s 2022-02-03 financial results update.
Boeing received a $605,000,000 contract in April 2019 for the development and production of WGS-11+.
The U.S. Space Force issued a 2022-02-01 news release that the Boeing-built WGS-11+ satellite passed a critical design review and will transition to production.
Boeing’s Millennium Space Systems has demonstrated that 3D-printed smallsat buses offer a far faster production cycle time and are about 30% less costly than traditional bus structures.
Livingston Holder is chief technology officer of Radian Aerospace and earlier in his career led Boeing’s X-33 proposal.
Boeing is building 11 O3b mPOWER satellites to upgrade SES’s MEO constellation with significantly faster broadband speeds.
Cosmic Girl, the Boeing 747 aircraft that serves as the launch platform for LauncherOne, took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California at 4:39 p.m. Eastern on 2022-01-13.
The Boeing 747 aircraft used as Virgin Orbit’s launch platform is scheduled to take off from Mojave Air and Space Port in California between 4:00 and 6:30 p.m. Eastern for the Above the Clouds mission.
Prior to joining RI&S, Robertson served as vice president and general manager of autonomous systems at Boeing.
During her tenure at Boeing, Kristin Robertson led and grew several multi-billion-dollar product lines.
Kristin Robertson led autonomous technologies, intelligence capabilities, and networking solutions at Boeing from seabed to space.
Viasat built the ViaSat-3 payload and integrated it with a chassis provided by Boeing for tests that will continue into early 2022.
The merger was expected to raise up to $483 million, comprising $383,000,000 from SPAC proceeds and $100,000,000 from a private investment in public equity (PIPE) round that included AE Industrial Partners and Boeing as investors.
The U.S. Space Force awarded Boeing a $329,300,000 contract to support operations of Global Positioning System satellites for 10 years.
NASA and Boeing planned no earlier than May 2022 for the rescheduled second uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT-2) of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft.
The contract dated 2021-12-20 covers on-orbit support of Boeing-manufactured GPS 2F satellites.
Boeing will work with United Launch Alliance to consider launch opportunities for OFT-2 on an Atlas V rocket.
Boeing scrubbed an August 2021 launch of the OFT-2 mission when valves in the propulsion system of the service module failed to open.
Boeing is using data to guide its decision making on Starliner system readiness for test missions in 2022.
Boeing’s second uncrewed Starliner test flight, OFT-2, was delayed to some time in 2022.