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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Global IP's Boeing high-throughput satellite remains under construction and Global IP has not yet raised the $200,000,000 needed to complete it.
ASAP members raised technical concerns with both Boeing and SpaceX developments, including a propulsion system problem for the Starliner propulsion module and unresolved root causes of a composite overwrapped pressure vessel failure that led to a Falcon 9 pad explosion.
NASA awarded Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contracts to Boeing and SpaceX in September 2014.
Thuraya currently operates two Boeing-built satellites, Thuraya-3 and Thuraya-2.
Thuraya’s two Boeing-built satellites were designed to last at least 12 years, putting Thuraya-2 three years past its expected end date.
Boeing is building the first two ViaSat-3 satellites, one to cover North and South America and the other to cover Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
The United Launch Alliance joint venture began operating as a monopoly in 2006 after Boeing’s Delta and Lockheed’s Atlas merged their government launch operations.
Tim Dunn was a NASA launch director who worked as a Boeing Delta 2 guidance engineer in 1997.
Delta 2 was originally built by McDonnell Douglas based on Douglas Aircraft Company’s Delta rocket and was later produced by Boeing and United Launch Alliance.
In the early 2000s, NASA awarded Boeing a contract for 19 Delta 2 flights.
The former Orbiter Processing Facility 3 is being transitioned into an assembly line where Boeing is manufacturing the CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle.
The Reagan Administration awarded McDonnell Douglas a contract in 1987 to upgrade its Delta rocket, a modified Air Force Thor intermediate-range ballistic missile, following the Space Shuttle Challenger disaster.
The companies awarded 2018-09-27 contracts to develop hypersonic weapon system concepts are BAE Systems, Boeing, General Atomics, L3 Technologies, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Raytheon, and Draper Laboratories.
The nine firms awarded $1,000,000 study contracts for Space Sensor Layer concept designs are Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, General Atomics, Maxar Technologies, Draper Laboratories, Leidos, Millennium Space, and Boeing.
SpaceX and Boeing are developing similar launch abort systems for their manned spacecraft and have not yet tested those systems under live abort conditions.
The report found that Boeing's poor performance caused significant cost increases and schedule delays in developing the Space Launch System core stage.
John Shannon, vice president and program manager for the SLS program at Boeing, stated that they underestimated the required work to modify shuttle-heritage hardware for SLS.
NASA’s inspector general criticized both NASA and Boeing for delays and cost overruns in the development of a key component of the Space Launch System on October 10.
Boeing attributed the delays to underfunding of its contract in 2015, but the Office of Inspector General found that the funding shortfall was modest and offset by increases in funding in the following year.
Boeing has already implemented changes to improve the management of the SLS core stage and has restructured its leadership team to better align with current program challenges.