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The use of a cost-plus contract for ML-2 provides limited motivation for the contractor to reduce costs, according to the OIG report citing past experiences with Vencore and Boeing.
A Defense Contract Management Agency review in October 2019 found foreign object debris in core stage hardware at Boeing’s Michoud Assembly Facility, prompting a two-day production pause while Boeing developed a corrective action plan.
Virgin Orbit performed a taxi test of its Boeing 747 aircraft with a fully-fueled LauncherOne rocket attached to its wing in early March 2020.
Congress funded the 11th Wideband Global Satcom satellite in 2018 and Boeing is under contract to deliver WGS-11 by 2024.
Zero Gravity Corporation plans to acquire at least one additional Boeing 727 and possibly more to ensure access to parts for expansion.
Accion Systems raised an $11,000,000 Series B round led by Boeing HorizonX Ventures and Shasta Ventures.
Boeing took a $410,000,000 charge in January related to its commercial crew program, in part to cover costs of a potential Starliner OFT reflight.
Zero Gravity Corporation operates one Boeing 727 aircraft that is certified by the Federal Aviation Administration to perform parabolic flights.
The U.S. Space Force’s Space and Missile Systems Center selected Boeing and Lockheed Martin on 2020-03-03 to develop jam-resistant communications payloads under the Protected Tactical Satcom program.
Boeing received a $191,000,000 contract for Protected Tactical Satcom payload development.
Seven satellites ordered from Boeing for the medium-Earth-orbit O3b mPower constellation are slated to launch on two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets.
Boeing plans to test Starliner operations from launch through docking and from undocking to landing going forward.
Boeing will perform more rigorous testing on its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle after errors were found during its uncrewed test flight.
Boeing will more closely study hardware requirements for Starliner testing in the future.
Boeing's vice president and program manager of Starliner, John Mulholland, indicated that the timer problem was not detected in prelaunch testing with United Launch Alliance due to the split testing phases.
Boeing is reviewing all of the Starliner software, accounting for about one million lines of code.
SES purchased seven O3b mPower satellites from Boeing in 2018.
Virgin Orbit prepared for an imminent first orbital launch attempt of LauncherOne using a converted Boeing 747 in 2020 after a final series of tests.
Both Boeing and SpaceX completed uncrewed commercial crew test flights in 2019 and were preparing crewed test flights in 2020.
NASA and Boeing had agreed that the CST-100 Starliner crewed test flight would be a long-duration mission with astronauts Mike Fincke, Nicole Mann, and Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson performing space station training.