April 2020
Space Florida - gateway to an interstellar future
...’s modern, world class manufacturing facility for its human-rated Starliner spacecraft, which will resume the capability for the US to..., Boeing now uses this infrastructure for its CST-100 Starliner. In 2015, the State of Florida acquired the former...
April 2020
Replacing hydrazine fuel with a greener alternative
.... 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...was expected due to “dribble volume” from the Starliner service module. Better options Today, companies worldwide are...
April 2020
Reviving Russia’s space programme
... arriving at the end of 2019. The retirement of the Space Shuttle in 2011, and American slowness in making replacement Starliner and Dragon spacecraft flightworthy, meant a ten-year stream of dollars for Russia from delivering astronauts to the...
19 August 2016
It's a Lovely Day for a Spacewalk: New IDA Installation Nears Completion
..., 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 to other...
15 August 2019
SNC remains optimistic about crewed Dream Chaser
... to free the US from relying on Russia to fly astronauts, NASA instead funded development, and eventually flights, on Boeing's Starliner and SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsules. SNC came back about year later and won an undisclosed share...
11 November 2020
Senate deals major blow to Bridenstine’s Moon ambitions
... a social-media tiff with Elon Musk over priorities; the nearly disastrous uncrewed test flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule; and a popular surge in private-sector contracts for lunar exploration. When first asked to approve Bridenstine...
