Boeing is taking a $410,000,000 charge to its earnings to cover a potential additional uncrewed test flight of its CST-100 Starliner.
The planned docking of the CST-100 Starliner with the International Space Station was canceled due to a problem with a mission elapsed timer.
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner failed to reach the International Space Station in December 2023.
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 received $4,800,000,000 in commercial crew funding for its NASA crew vehicle efforts.
NASA completed two major reviews on 2020-07-07 related to Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner uncrewed Orbital Flight Test (OFT) last December.
Boeing plans a second uncrewed CST-100 Starliner flight, funded by Boeing, no earlier than late 2020, followed by a crewed flight test with two NASA astronauts and former NASA astronaut Chris Ferguson in 2021.
Boeing completed a formal requalification of the software on its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft on 2021-01-18.
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner second uncrewed test flight is scheduled to launch on 2021-03-29 and could move to 2021-03-25.
The software requalification for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner included reviews of the software and the processes by which Boeing developed and tested the software.
Boeing’s uncrewed Orbital Flight Test 2 of the CST-100 Starliner was scheduled to launch no earlier than 2021-03-25 for an approximately one-week mission.
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner Orbital Flight Test 2 launch is planned for no earlier than 2021-04-02.
NASA and Boeing plan to launch the CST-100 Starliner on a second uncrewed test flight no earlier than 2021-04-02.
NASA and Boeing plan a second test flight of the CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle on 2021-07-30.
NASA approved plans on 2021-07-22 for the launch of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on a second uncrewed test flight intended to demonstrate that Boeing corrected the problems from the first flight.
NASA and Boeing are targeting the first half of 2022 to launch the rescheduled CST-100 Starliner test flight.
Boeing received a $4,200,000,000 fixed-price contract from NASA in 2014 to develop and operate the CST-100 Starliner.
Boeing will provide a science module for Orbital Reef and supply its CST-100 Starliner crew vehicle while handling station operations, maintenance, and engineering.
Boeing is taking an additional $185,000,000 charge against its earnings to cover costs to get its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew vehicle flying again.
As part of a 2021 market survey, NASA received a capability statement from Boeing showing that a cargo version of CST-100 Starliner would be well below the CRS2 contract requirement of 2,500 kg per mission and would require redesign work to carry cargo.