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 made several changes in management of its work on the International Space Station and the CST-100 Starliner on 2024-06-19.
Boeing took a $410,000,000 charge against its January 2024 earnings in anticipation of conducting the second Orbital Flight Test and for other costs associated with the Starliner program.
John Mulholland has managed Boeing’s commercial crew work since 2011 and previously was program manager for Boeing’s space shuttle work.
Boeing will build SES-20 and SES-21 in Los Angeles, California on its all-electric 702SP satellite platform.
On 2020-06-16, SES contracted Boeing and Northrop Grumman to each build two geostationary communications satellites for C-band services in the United States.
Boeing brought a Starliner test vehicle to Patrick Air Force Base for open ocean rescue training.
The military is supporting three capsules: SpaceX Crew Dragon, Boeing Starliner, and Lockheed Martin Orion.
Boeing and SpaceX won Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contracts in 2014 to complete development and testing of their commercial crew vehicles and for initial flights to the ISS.
Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley joined the commercial crew cadre of astronauts in 2015 to train on both SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner vehicles.
SES has seven O3b mPower satellites under construction with Boeing that are slated to launch in 2021 on two SpaceX Falcon 9 missions.
ViaSat‑3 Americas is the first of three high‑throughput broadband satellites under construction with Boeing and is projected to launch in mid‑2021.
NASA selected Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley in 2015 as part of an initial cadre of astronauts to train and work with both Boeing and SpaceX on commercial crew vehicles.
Delays in the commercial crew program by Boeing and SpaceX have required NASA to purchase additional Soyuz seats at generally increasing prices.
45th Operations Group Detachment 3 has worked on tactics, techniques, and procedures for five years to be ready to support SpaceX Crew Dragon and Boeing.
Viasat used a U.K. business unit to order its ViaSat-2 satellite from Boeing in 2013, enabling the company to leverage financing from the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
Boeing withdrew its FCC applications for constellations sized at 60 satellites and 2,956 satellites in 2018 and therefore did not receive approval.
Boeing planned to perform a second uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT) of the Starliner spacecraft late in 2020 before moving ahead with a crewed test flight.
The Space Enterprise Consortium selected Boeing Phantom Works’ subsidiary Millennium Space Systems and Blue Canyon Technologies to develop Tetra smallsat prototypes for experiments in geosynchronous orbit.
Millennium Space Systems, a subsidiary of Boeing, supplied the satellite bus for the Wide Field of View satellite.
Boeing will perform a second Orbital Flight Test of the CST-100 Starliner at its own expense.