July 2021
Nitrous oxide – a green propellant for commercial space exploration
...About the authors Vadim Zakirov is a technical expert for CST. He has a BSc in Aerospace Engineering from Moscow Aviation... in electromagnetic launch technology until 1998, when he joined CST as a Head of Consultancy. His areas of expertise include...
13 December 2019
Starliner spacecraft could fly as early as next week
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft is good to go on an uncrewed test flight ...Alliance. “Together, NASA and Boeing are ready to demonstrate the capabilities of the CST-100 Starliner spacecraft ton top of a human-rated Atlas 5 rocket,” Morhard said....
06 June 2024
NASA troubleshoots helium leaks after Starliner launch
... the spacecraft that became Starliner, then known as the CST-100, during the 2010 Farnborough International Airshow (FIA)....the time, Boeing officials said they hoped to declare the CST-100 spacecraft operational by 2015, but the US Congress initially ...
April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
... Air Force X-37 spacecraft. Once a former Shuttle processing facility, Boeing now uses this infrastructure for its CST-100 Starliner. In 2015, the State of Florida acquired the former Shuttle Landing Facility - now Launch and...
April 2020
Replacing hydrazine fuel with a greener alternative
... costing upwards of $300 million, $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...
13 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...
