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WGS-11 is built on Boeing’s 702X medium-size satellite bus that Boeing introduced in 2019 for the commercial and government markets.
Boeing and Northrop Grumman are developing competing PTS prototype payloads that will be evaluated in on-orbit demonstrations in 2025.
SES selected the Boeing 702X bus to build its 11-satellite O3b mPower constellation in medium Earth orbit.
Boeing won a $191,000,000 contract in 2020 to develop a Protect Tactical Satcom (PTS) payload.
Boeing is contracted to deliver 11 O3b mPOWER satellites to SES.
The first two of 11 O3b mPower satellites that Boeing is building for SES launched on a Falcon 9 in December.
Boeing reduced bus module build times for O3b mPower by 50% and achieved a similar improvement for payload integration and testing operations.
Boeing teams have reduced the O3b mPOWER bus module build time by more than 50 percent.
SES requires six O3b mPower satellites in equatorial medium Earth orbit to provide initial global services from the next-generation network based on Boeing’s BSS-702X satellite platform.
Boeing’s PTS prototype will launch as a hosted payload on the U.S. Space Force’s Wideband Global Satcom WGS-11 satellite, which Boeing is developing under a 2019 contract.
Boeing and Northrop Grumman were selected in 2020 by the U.S. Space Force to develop Protected Tactical Satcom prototype payloads (PTS).
Boeing plans to deliver the WGS-11 satellite in 2024.
Northrop Grumman is developing a geostationary communications satellite that will compete against a Boeing design in a military procurement estimated to be worth $2,400,000,000.
The Department of Defense expects two PTS prototype payloads to be available for launch in fiscal year 2025 as payloads on Boeing’s WGS-11 (hosted) and Northrop Grumman’s ESPAStar-HP satellites (free-flyer).
Intelsat previously operated the Boeing-built IS-29e at 50° West, which was declared a total loss in 2019 after suffering a fuel leak.
Virgin Orbit acquired a Boeing 747 from Virgin Atlantic in 2015 to serve as LauncherOne’s air-launch platform.
Insitu, a Boeing Company, set a company record for the longest duration flight with a 25.5-hour sortie using its Integrator Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) on an operational mission.
On 2023-02-17 NASA and Boeing had completed 80% of the preparations for the CFT mission.
NASA and Boeing pushed back the first crewed launch of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft with astronauts on board until at least late July because certification paperwork has taken longer than expected to complete.
Boeing improved the 702MP+ platform structure to support Viasat’s large payload.