04 August 2024
NASA faces sticky choice between Boeing and SpaceX for safe return of astronauts
... to Earth with crew, based on an abundance of testing conducted by our teams and at NASA in space and on the ground.” Starliner - on just its third flight into space - is very much a spacecraft whose performance is under evaluation. It was originally...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... It took a few laps around Titusville and was present for the Orbital Flight Test (OFT) of Starliner in December. Starliner itself is important because, after NASA’s Space Shuttle was decommissioned there were no options to launch American astronauts...
April 2020
Is space poised to take another giant leap?
... precedent, this seems unlikely. Boeing cut short the uncrewed demonstration flight of its new astronaut capsule, Starliner, in December 2019 after it suffered technical problems that prevented it docking with the International Space Station. The...
March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
... human-rated spaceship was officially named CST-100 Starliner after previously being known simply as CST-100....the International Space Station (ISS) is planned for May 2017. Starliner missions will carry four astronauts to the ISS and some cargo...
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...
