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The satellite was shipped from Boeing’s facility in El Segundo, California to Florida on an Antonov cargo aircraft.
Mentioned as: Boeing Org Relationship Sep 30, 2025 Latest NewsBoeing has not yet completed a successful flight test of its Starliner spacecraft for NASA astronaut transport.
United Airlines plans to operate its first commercial flight with a Starlink-equipped Boeing 737-800 on October 15.
Mentioned as: boeing Technical Product Sep 26, 2025 Latest NewsNASA began business arrangements with SpaceX and Boeing for transporting crew aboard the Dragon and Starliner spacecraft.
The FAA approved Starlink’s Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) amendment for the Boeing 737-800 to include United’s fleet.
Mentioned as: Boeing Narrative General Sep 26, 2025 Latest NewsULA is a joint venture with Lockheed Martin and Boeing formed in 2006.
Boeing's new solar array substrate represents a production improvement of up to 50 percent compared to previous process cycles.
Boeing's new 3D-printed solar array substrate can compress composite build times by up to six months.
The new assembly approach is designed to scale from small satellites to larger platforms, including Boeing 702-class spacecraft, with market availability targeted for 2026.
Flight representative hardware has completed engineering tests and is progressing through Boeing's standard qualification path before customer missions.
Boeing has incorporated more than 1,000 radiofrequency parts in each Wideband Global Satcom (WGS) satellite currently in production, along with multiple lines of small satellites featuring fully 3D-printed structures.
Boeing has integrated over 150,000 3D-printed parts throughout its portfolio, resulting in significant advantages in timelines, costs, and performance.
Boeing's first 3D-printed solar panels will carry Spectrolab solar cells on small satellites built by Millennium Space Systems.
Boeing has introduced a 3D-printed substrate for solar panels that reduces composite material construction times by up to six months in a typical solar panel wing program.
Boeing's additive manufacturing materials and processes have been flight-tested and qualified.
The difference in MTOW between the H-6N and B-52H is comparable to that between a late model Boeing 737 and a late model Boeing 767.
Mentioned as: Boeing Narrative General Sep 4, 2025 RT by @luritie: 🇨🇳 The combination of the specially-configured aerial-refuelling capable H-6N bomber and the likes of the JL-1 air-launched ballistic missile is understood to be the primary current manifestation of the PLA Air Force's (PLAAF) (re)adoption of a nuclear strike role, a development that offers China a so-called nuclear triad after decades of heavy—in practice near-total—reliance on ground-launched nuclear-armed ballistic missiles. While the PLAAF currently appears to be turning to air-launched ballistic missiles to deliver nuclear warheads, it may come to deploy nuclear-armed air-launched cruise missiles for its future bomber aircraft going forward.
The subsonic turbofan-powered H-6N and the underlying turbofan-powered H-6K are the latest Chinese derivatives of the 1950s-origin turbojet-powered Soviet Tupolev Tu-16 bomber aircraft design. While the longevity of the Tu-16 design in Chinese service is often spoken of in the same light as the U.S. Air Force's ongoing use of the 1950s-origin B-52 bomber aircraft design, the Tu-16/H-6 is best characterized as a medium bomber design, while the B-52 is best characterized as a heavy bomber design. The latest B-52H—a highly modified version of airframes that were built through the early 1960s—is likely to have a maximum take-off weight (MTOW) that is over 200% that of the closely related turbofan-powered H-6K and H-6N, the production of which continued into the 2020s. The difference in MTOW between the H-6N and B-52H is broadly comparable to the difference in MTOW between a late model Boeing 737 airliner and a late model Boeing 767 airliner.
All things considered, the H-6N design is severely limited in terms of payload-range and range-endurance and cannot be employed in the highly flexible manner that the USAF employed the versatile B-52 design throughout the Cold War and to the present day. Given the prevailing threat environment, China's military-geographical context, and the logistical realities associated with operating the likes of the H-6N and even the American B-52H from China to attack distant targets, the H-6N requires a very long-range standoff strike munition to target Hawaii and the continental United States. The JL-1 appears to be one of at least two air-launched munitions that the H-6N can carry on its single semi-recessed centerline (external) weapons station—the other is a boost-glide vehicle/hypersonic glide vehicle design.
There is no public indication of the existence of a nuclear-armed air-launched cruise missile for the H-6N, and the aforementioned considerations indicate why this is likely to be the case. The PLAAF is, however, likely to acquire a nuclear-armed air-launched cruise missile for the reportedly forthcoming H-20 bomber aircraft, which is widely thought to be a flying wing low observable design in the vein of the American B-2 and B-21. Such a bomber aircraft design will be limited to carrying munitions in one or more internal bomb bays. The JL-1 is an extremely large—oversized munition—such an air-launched ballistic missile is an unlikely candidate for carriage by the reportedly forthcoming H-20 bomber.
While the air-launched ballistic missiles have certain advantages over air-launched cruise missiles, ballistic missiles employ rockets for propulsion that are inherently inefficient and uneconomical by virtue of carrying the weight and volume of oxidizer necessary for combustion within the missile. A prospective Chinese nuclear-armed air-launched cruise missile design is, in contrast, likely to use an air-breathing propulsion system such as a turbofan engine or a ramjet engine that makes use of atmospheric oxygen as oxidizer. All else being equal, a munition equipped with an air-breathing propulsion system of a given range-payload class is going to be much smaller and lighter—and more suitable for internal carriage—than a munition that is equipped with a non-air-breathing propulsion system, namely a liquid-propellant rocket engine or solid-propellant rocket motor.
The PLAAF's future course will, of course, be shaped by the various other considerations at play, above all those concerning the logistical realities of having an H-20 bomber/a future PLAAF bomber design more generally take off from China to target Hawaii and/or the continental United States and the nature of envisaged American air and ballistic missile defence capabilities. It is, therefore, possible that H-20 bombers/a future PLAAF bomber aircraft design, more generally, will be equipped with a smaller and lighter nuclear-armed air-launched ballistic missile design. It is important to note that a subsonic air-launched cruise missile is not the only option available to China. The recent parade was used to unveil the new and previously unseen YJ-19, which is reported to be a sustained supersonic/hypersonic high-altitude anti-ship cruise missile that is equipped with a reported air-breathing scramjet (i.e., supersonic combustion airflow ramjet) engine. While the YJ-19 is reliant on a large and heavy (non-airbreathing) solid-propellant rocket booster as its booster, it amounts to another approach that China can pursue to equip its future bomber aircraft with nuclear-armed air-launched strike munitions that are very different than the likes of the very large and bulky JL-1 air-launched ballistic missile.The Boeing lunar base study envisioned a full observatory on the Moon for remote sensing and astronomical observations.
Mentioned as: Boeing Technical Product Mar 24, 2025 Boeing’s early lunar base concept of 1959The IBM 704 digital computer was a contemporary example used by Boeing for lunar trajectory calculations related to the SR-183 project.
Mentioned as: Boeing Narrative General Mar 24, 2025 Boeing’s early lunar base concept of 1959Boeing reported over half a billion dollars in charges against earnings due to Starliner in 2024.
Mentioned as: Boeing Narrative General Mar 24, 2025 A final twist in the Starliner saga