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 received $146,000,000 in award fees since NASA established formal cost and schedule baselines for the SLS program.
Viasat builds ViaSat-3 payloads at its satellite manufacturing facility in Tempe, Arizona using modular structures from Boeing.
Boeing received $271,000,000 in award fees over the life of its SLS contract.
Boeing earned 81 percent of the total award fees it could have earned after NASA established formal baselines for the SLS program.
Much of Boeing’s commercial crew work is based at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center using a converted shuttle-era hangar as an assembly facility for the CST-100 Starliner.
Boeing is providing the satellite chassis for the ViaSat-3 satellites and integrating the Viasat-built payloads.
Inmarsat operates four Boeing-built Global Xpress satellites in orbit, three for global coverage and one spare.
Boeing has secured geostationary communications satellite orders 2019 for a Viasat ViaSat-3 satellite focused on the Asia-Pacific region and for the U.S. Air Force’s WGS-11 satellite.
If Boeing completes the SLS core stage and ships it to Stennis by the end of the year, NASA expects the core stage could go to KSC by the end of June 2020 assuming the green run test proceeds as planned.
Boeing completed hot-fire testing on 2019-05-23 of Starliner’s entire propulsion system, including thrusters, fuel tanks, and related systems within a flight-like service module.
Boeing and Lockheed Martin announced plans to form United Launch Alliance in 2005 and ULA began operations in December 2006.
NASA awarded study contracts in November 2017 to Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Orbital ATK (now Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems), Sierra Nevada Space Systems, and Space Systems Loral (now Maxar).
Boeing completed four of a planned five parachute tests for the CST-100 Starliner and met all test objectives with parachutes that continually performed as expected.
A parachute test for Boeing’s Starliner took place 2019-02-28 in New Mexico that dropped a Starliner test article from a high-altitude balloon.
Boeing Phantom Works designed a low-profile electronically steered antenna and a multi-channel terminal that will be in production by the second quarter of 2020.
Boeing partnered with Panasonic in 2014 to design an electronically steered phased array antenna that cost $1,000,000 each.
The launch customer for Boeing Phantom Works’ new antenna will be the Navy’s MQ-25 unmanned mid-air refueling tanker, which Boeing is developing under an $805,000,000 contract.
Boeing Phantom Works’ phased array antenna would provide military aircraft access to government and commercial Ka-band satellites that deliver from tens to hundreds of megabits per second of data throughput.
Viasat has three next-generation ViaSat-3 Ka-band satellites under construction with Boeing designed to offer at least a terabit of capacity each.
Chris Johnson is the president of Boeing Satellite Systems International.