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...
January 2022
Earth - no longer humanity’s only home
... missions of tomorrow. To maximise the results from our Earth-reliant phase, NASA is working with commercial partners Boeing and SpaceX to develop a new crew launch capability alongside the commercial cargo capability currently provided by SpaceX...
October 2023
The multidisciplinary world of space habitation design
... The sequence of multi-year grant research projects for Boeing included deployable airlock studies for orbital applications (Fig. ...lunar lander study, habitability and lunar base studies of Boeing design for lunar orbital platform-gateway, and lunar ...
02 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...
