April 2020
Replacing hydrazine fuel with a greener alternative
...proven so difficult and whether a viable solution exists. Almost 100 years ago, back in 1922, Dr Robert H Goddard ... 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....
12 March 2015
Russian space agency endorses ISS until 2024
... maintaining the space station’s orbit and steering the complex away from space junk. The Boeing CST-100 and SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft could do limited reboosts of the lab’s altitude, if required, but only the...
19 August 2016
It's a Lovely Day for a Spacewalk: New IDA Installation Nears Completion
... Crew Program, both Boeing and SpaceX are planning to send astronauts to the ISS in 2017, using the CST-100 Starline and Crew Dragon, respectively. The adapter is designed to be used by any future spacecraft from commercial vehicles...
06 November 2019
Boeing's ‘fewest steps to the Moon’ proposal for NASA’s Human Lander
... the need for an additional spacecraft. Perhaps no surprise is that its key technologies are based on Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft, which will be used to transport crew to the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft completed...
22 November 2019
NASA and Boeing celebrate roll out of Starliner despite dispute over costs
... and hit back at NASA with its own statement; “We strongly disagree with the report’s conclusions about CST-100 Starliner pricing and readiness, and we owe it to the space community and the American public to share the...
30 July 2021
Starliner OFT-2 launch delayed following problems with Nauka module at ISS
... the station is ready, the mission, which would have been the second uncrewed flight test of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner as part of the NASA’s Commercial Crew Programme, is now scheduled for no earlier than Tuesday at 1:20 pm EDT (17:20 GMT...
