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Virgin Orbit’s Cosmic Girl, a modified Boeing 747, took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California at 2:56 p.m. Eastern on the day of the launch.
Cosmic Girl is a Boeing 747 that serves as the air-launch platform for the LauncherOne rocket.
Virgin Orbit plans to perform its inaugural LauncherOne mission on 2020-05-24 with Cosmic Girl, the company’s modified Boeing 747, flying out of the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.
Only Maxar, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, and Northrop Grumman build large geostationary communications satellites in the United States.
45th Operations Group Detachment 3 has worked on tactics, techniques, and procedures for five years to be ready to support SpaceX Crew Dragon and Boeing.
Delays in the commercial crew program by Boeing and SpaceX have required NASA to purchase additional Soyuz seats at generally increasing prices.
Boeing withdrew its FCC applications for constellations sized at 60 satellites and 2,956 satellites in 2018 and therefore did not receive approval.
Viasat used a U.K. business unit to order its ViaSat-2 satellite from Boeing in 2013, enabling the company to leverage financing from the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
Boeing planned to perform a second uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT) of the Starliner spacecraft late in 2020 before moving ahead with a crewed test flight.
The Space Enterprise Consortium selected Boeing Phantom Works’ subsidiary Millennium Space Systems and Blue Canyon Technologies to develop Tetra smallsat prototypes for experiments in geosynchronous orbit.
Virgin Orbit’s modified Boeing 747 aircraft with a LauncherOne rocket attached to its left wing took off from the Mojave Air and Space Port in California at 2:23 p.m. Eastern.
Millennium Space Systems, a subsidiary of Boeing, supplied the satellite bus for the Wide Field of View satellite.
Boeing decided on 2020-04-06 to fly a second uncrewed test flight of its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle later in 2020 to confirm it has corrected problems encountered in the 2019-12-01 test flight.
Boeing will perform a second Orbital Flight Test of the CST-100 Starliner at its own expense.
NASA had not decided in early March 2020 whether Boeing needed to perform a second uncrewed test flight.
Boeing took a $410,000,000 charge against earnings in January 2020 in anticipation of the need to refly the Orbital Flight Test.
Virgin Orbit’s LauncherOne system is delivered to launch sites by a Boeing 747 aircraft modified to carry the LauncherOne rocket under its left wing.
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner failed to reach the International Space Station in December 2023.
United Launch Alliance was established in 2006 as a Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture to consolidate their launch businesses.
The U.S. Space Force Space and Missile Systems Center awarded PTS contracts to Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and Northrop Grumman to develop jam-resistant communications payloads.