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....
21 June 2019
Artemis-1 flight faces delays suggests new report
...by the start of production.” A lack of technicians was also cited as a cause for slow progress on Boeing’s behalf. "As core stage production began, Boeing was focused on minimizing the number of technicians, in part to keep costs low, and hired about...
27 January 2020
US bill spurns Moon programme favouring Mars instead
... that would then be stationed at the Gateway. This simplified specification closely resembles a design recently put forward by Boeing, who proposed a ‘fewest steps to the Moon’ approach that minimises mission complexity. Closer to Earth, the bill...
July 2014
X-51A Waverider, hypersonics, and the potential of airbreathing engines
... of socalled ‘hypersonic’ fl ight, in excess of fi ve times the speed of sound. The X-51A vehicles were built by The Boeing Company, each powered by a unique engine called a ‘scramjet’, which was in turn constructed by the Rocketdyne Corporation1...
July 2014
View from Inmarsat: the search for MH370 and using satellites for safety
... FANS-equipped was increased from below 50 per cent to nearly 80 per cent. All new wide-body Boeing and Airbus aircraft are now fitted with FANS-capable avionics. This is clearly a significant increase, though...
