06 December 2015
Virgin Galactic to Use Boeing 747 for LauncherOne Missions
...Galactic has announced that it has bought a Boeing 747 jetliner to be used as its ...operated by Virgin Atlantic, nicknamed 'Cosmic Girl'. The vehicle was built by Boeing in 2001 and has been in commercial service with Virgin Atlantic until October of...
06 June 2024
NASA troubleshoots helium leaks after Starliner launch
...1615 UTC) today, some 24 hours after launch. NASA awarded Boeing a $4.2 billion contract to complete development of the Starliner spacecraft... the retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011. Boeing ran into numerous technical issues, resulting in a major...
24 August 2024
NASA formally abandons Starliner for crew return to Earth
... of certainty to perform a crewed return," said Steve Stich, manager of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. "The NASA and Boeing teams have completed a tremendous amount of testing and analysis, and this flight test is providing critical information...
23 June 2024
NASA postpones Starliner's crew return amid thruster concerns
... them up from the ISS. Such a move would not look good from a PR perspective for either NASA or Boeing but it would be infinitely preferable to risking the lives of astronauts in a capsule returning to Earth with unresolved or uncertain technical...
August 2018
America’s ‘dream machine’
...on a runway that is equivalent to that required for a Boeing 737 aircraft we have much more flexibility. Dream Chaser could ...land on a runway that is equivalent to that required for a Boeing 737 aircraft, so we have much more flexibility As a final ...
September 2017
Australia’s ambitious home-grown space industry
...-cost satellite water tank monitors. Several large private companies - including Airbus Defence & Space, BAE Systems, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman Australia and Nova Systems - have established, or have shown interest...
