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Boeing and Millennium Space Systems merged in 2018.
Boeing helped Millennium qualify a printed metal satellite bus that offers cost, time, and mass savings.
The 2018 merger enabled Boeing and Millennium to win programs that each company would not have been able to win separately.
Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne is an air-launched rocket that deploys from a modified Boeing 747 carrier aircraft at high altitude.
Boeing plans to deliver WGS-11 in 2024.
Boeing is building WGS-11 at its factory in El Segundo, California under a $605,000,000 contract awarded in October 2019.
The U.S. Space Force will use $442,000,000 that Congress added to the 2023 defense budget to buy a wideband communications satellite made by Boeing.
NASA is counting on the introduction of new vehicles, including Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser cargo vehicle, Japan’s HTV-X cargo vehicle, and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle.
Virgin Orbit designs and manufactures its LauncherOne rockets in Long Beach, California and air-launches them from the wing of its converted Boeing 747-400 named Cosmic Girl.
Virgin Orbit’s air-launch platform can launch from any runway long enough to handle a Boeing 747, enabling launch operations without a traditional vertical-launch spaceport.
The rocket for the 2023-01-09 LauncherOne mission was deployed from a Boeing 747 aircraft and completed a first stage burn as planned.
The Boeing-built SES-20 was launched by United Launch Alliance in tandem with SES-21 from Cape Canaveral, Florida in October 2022.
Virgin Orbit’s Boeing 747 aircraft took off from Spaceport Cornwall in southwestern England at about 5:02 p.m. Eastern for the Start Me Up mission.
Virgin Orbit’s air-launch platform can operate from any runway long enough to handle a Boeing 747.
Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne rockets are air-launched from the wing of a converted Boeing 747-400 aircraft named Cosmic Girl.
CBAS-1 was made by Boeing and launched to geostationary orbit in 2018 on the AFSPC-11 mission aboard a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket.
The 2022-12-16 launch delivered Boeing’s 702X-based O3b mPOWER communications satellite to orbit.
Boeing’s O3b mPOWER satellite will help deliver broadband internet access to the ‘other 3 billion’ people around the globe where access is limited or nonexistent.
The Boeing-built O3b mPower satellites use onboard all-electric propulsion and will take about five months to reach their orbital positions.
Each O3b mPower satellite is based on a modified version of Boeing’s 702 platform and is designed to generate up to around 5,000 electronically steered spot beams.