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 702X series consists of the small GEO and legacy Boeing 702 Small Power and Medium Power platforms integrated with Boeing’s digital payload technology.
Boeing offers smaller communications satellites for geostationary orbit using new digital payload technology that can reduce the weight of its typical communications spacecraft by half.
Boeing worked for two years on the seven-satellite O3b mPower system prior to developing the small GEO product.
One satellite design that previously required around 4,500 components and nearly 1,300 radio-frequency cables now requires 348 components and 64 cables under Boeing’s updated design.
Boeing designed its small GEO product as a solution for operators reluctant to invest in traditional multi-ton communications satellites.
After opening subsequent GPS-3 satellites to competition, the Air Force selected Lockheed Martin again in 2018 for up to 22 follow-on satellites valued at $7,200,000,000 after Boeing and Northrop Grumman declined to bid.
United Launch Alliance took over Delta launches in 2006 when it formed as a joint venture of Boeing’s and Lockheed Martin’s launcher businesses.
Boeing plans to perform a pad abort test of the CST-100 Starliner's launch escape system shortly after the Orbital Flight Test.
Boeing is building the SLS core stage at the Michoud Assembly Facility in New Orleans.
NASA and Boeing expect the SLS core stage to be completed and ready to ship to Stennis at the end of the year.
United Launch Alliance is building the Vulcan class of space launch vehicles at the factory Boeing opened in Decatur, Alabama in 1998 to make Delta rockets.
Spacecom contracted Boeing to build Amos-17 in December 2016 under a $161,000,000 contract.
Millennium Space Systems, a Boeing subsidiary, is designing and building the 25-kilogram Dragracer satellite.
Uncertainty about when Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon will be ready to transport astronauts is a significant challenge for NASA.
Boeing's CST-100 Starliner uncrewed test flight is delayed due to an Atlas 5 launch, now scheduled for August 8, 2023.
The Air Force awarded Boeing and Northrop Grumman contracts to develop preliminary GBSD designs under the Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction phase.
Qantas Airways uses high-speed Viasat satellite connectivity with Teledyne’s GroundLink avionics software across its domestic fleet of Boeing 737 and Airbus A330 aircraft with Wi-Fi to stream information over the Viasat system.
Boeing is scheduled to perform an uncrewed test flight of Starliner no earlier than August 2019 followed by a crewed flight in November 2019, with the uncrewed test not expected before mid-September according to the GAO report.
Boeing is working to qualify the CST-100 Starliner’s parachute system and to address an issue discovered during a parachute test in August 2018.
Since the GAO’s July 2018 report, Boeing delayed its expected Starliner certification date by 12 months.