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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Eleven companies won concept study and prototype development awards from NASA in May, including Blue Origin, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, and SpaceX, with a combined value of $45,500,000.
Boeing vice president and SLS program manager John Shannon attributed the roughly two-year schedule slip to challenges using friction stir welding and underestimating the complexity of building the engine section that houses the four RS-25 engines.
The Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract that NASA awarded to Boeing required an uncrewed test flight that included a docking.
As of 2019-12-28, Boeing technicians were continuing processing of the Starliner vehicle and planned to transport the spacecraft back to Boeing’s facilities at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after the first of the year.
Boeing will deliver the 11th satellite of the Wideband Global Satellite Communication (WGS) constellation to the U.S. Air Force by 2024.
Boeing received a $605,000,000 contract for the production of the WGS-11 satellite that Congress funded in 2018.
Boeing developed a new variant of its commercial 702 satellite for WGS-11 that offers greater bandwidth efficiency and increased signal power compared with previous satellites in the fleet.
Boeing senior vice president Jim Chilton estimated that the mission achieved in the low 60% of overall flight test objectives based on available data and that the success rate could reach 85–90% after full data analysis.
After the Export-Import Bank’s charter lapsed in 2015, Boeing and Orbital ATK said they lost satellite manufacturing contracts because they could not offer export financing.
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner uncrewed Orbital Flight Test spacecraft will return to Earth on 2019-12-22.
NASA and Boeing were evaluating the spacecraft’s condition to determine which test objectives could be completed before deciding whether to land on 2019-12-22 or extend the mission.
The 2014 Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contracts awarded $4,200,000,000 to Boeing and $2,600,000,000 to SpaceX.
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner launched on an uncrewed Orbital Flight Test on 2019-12-20.
A successful Orbital Flight Test would allow a crewed Boeing Starliner flight to take place sometime in 2020.
Boeing and SpaceX received Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contracts in 2014 to complete development of their crewed spacecraft.
Boeing received its first commercial crew award from NASA in 2010 as part of the Commercial Crew Development program.
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner launched uncrewed on an Orbital Flight Test mission on 2019-12-20.
JCSAT-18/Kacific-1 is a 6,800-kilogram condominium satellite built by Boeing with distinct payloads for Sky Perfect JSAT and Kacific.
NASA approved on 2019-12-12 the agency’s plan to proceed with Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner uncrewed Orbital Flight Test to the International Space Station later in 2019-12-01.
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on OFT is scheduled to dock with the International Space Station at 8:08 a.m. Eastern on 2019-12-21.