April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... the aged building. Today it is the site of Boeing’s modern, world class manufacturing facility for its human-rated...Force X-37 spacecraft. Once a former Shuttle processing facility, Boeing now uses this infrastructure for its CST-100 Starliner. In...
April 2020
Replacing hydrazine fuel with a greener alternative
..., $500,000 is a drop in the bucket. A cloud of tetrazine billows to the right of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner at the end of a pad abort test on 4 November 2019. Boeing said that the hydrazine cloud was expected due to “dribble volume...
01 December 2014
X-37B spaceplane lands safely
...AFB on 17 October 2014, after 674 days in orbit. Boeing manages the vehicle and its secret mission work, which likely includes...where the former shuttle Orbiter Processing Facilities are leased to Boeing. The X-37 has now completed more than 1,367 days...
28 January 2016
Historic Intelsat Satellite Launch Successful
... is currently working on the construction of five other Epic-class satellites at Boeing Space and Intelligence Systems of El Segundo, California, all using Boeing’s sixth generation of digital signal processors. The processors will allow Intelsat...
31 January 2016
Rick Tumlinson Publishes Letter to the Washington Space Establishment
...others will follow soon -- Virgin, Vulcan, Sierra Nevada and even Boeing. And that is just in the United States. And thanks to...and spending on projects from Apollo to the ISS. Hire Boeing, Lockheed and Bigelow to develop large cycling solar system ...
04 September 2017
Secret spaceplane set for another launch
... Falcon 9 rocket; a first for the OTV. Built by Boeing, the X-37B launches vertically strapped to a rocket but then ...taken place with the United Launch Alliance, a joint venture between Boeing Co. and Lockheed Martin Corp., via its Atlas V rockets....
