Tag: Boeing
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Boeing and SpaceX reschedule Starliner and Dragon space taxi flight tests for 2019
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner are being developed to transport astronauts to and from the International Space Station for NASA. (SpaceX / Boeing Illustrations) NASA says we’ll have to wait until 2019 to see the first orbital tests of the space taxis that are being built by SpaceX and Boeing for trips to…
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Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg lays out his vision for space airplanes and aerospace traffic system
GeekWire’s Alan Boyle listens to Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg during a fireside chat at the GeekWire Summit in Seattle. (Photo by Dan DeLong for GeekWire) A decade from now, Boeing will still be primarily known as an airplane company, the company’s CEO says. But some of the things we’ll call airplanes might be what we’d…
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Boeing CEO: First operational self-flying cars are less than 5 years out
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg at the GeekWire Summit. (Photo by Dan DeLong for GeekWire) Autonomous flying cars have always seemed like a futuristic innovation that belongs more on the silver screen than in real life, but Boeing is making rapid headway on the concept and its top executive says we could see the first operational…
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From farm to final frontier: How Boeing’s CEO plants the seeds for tomorrow’s tech
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg grew up on a farm in Iowa. (Boeing Photo) Dennis Muilenburg is leading Boeing into a second century of innovation with dreams of hypersonic flight, self-flying planes and journeys to Mars. But to lead the way, the 102-year-old company’s CEO, chairman and president turns to the values he learned from his…
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Thirty years after Return To Flight from Challenger, Commercial Crew strives for culture of safety
Thirty years ago this weekend, after a two and a half year stand down and an extremely difficult external- and self-examination of a lack of safety within the program, NASA succeeded in returning the Space Shuttle fleet to flight following the devastating loss of the Space Shuttle Challenger and her seven-member crew on the STS-51L…
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Economic report lays out strategies to boost Washington’s $1.8B space industry
Hardware is spread across an assembly area at Blue Origin’s production facility in Kent, Wash. A new report names Blue Origin as Puget Sound’s largest regional employer in the space industry. (Credit: Blue Origin) A newly published economic report estimates the space industry’s contribution to Washington state’s economy at $1.8 billion and 6,200 jobs in…
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Live coverage: Ariane 5 rocket launches for 100th time
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of an Ariane 5 rocket with the Horizons 3e and Azerspace 2/Intelsat 38 communications satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. Arianespace’s live video webcast will begin approximately 15 minutes before launch and will be available on this…
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Boeing seals the deal on its acquisition of Millennium Space’s satellite operation
An artist’s conception shows Millennium Space Systems’ Altair satellite. (Millennium Illustration) News Brief: As promised, Boeing has completed its acquisition of California-based Millennium Space Systems, a provider of small-satellite solutions. Millennium, which has about 260 employees, will operate as a subsidiary of Boeing Phantom Works. When the acquisition plan was announced in August, Boeing said…
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Photos: Ariane 5 rolls to launch pad with two commercial comsats
An Ariane 5 rocket emerged from the final assembly building at the Guiana Space Center in South America on Monday for the journey across the tropical spaceport to the ELA-3 launch zone, where the 179-foot-tall (54.8-meter) booster will lift off Tuesday with a pair of commercial communications satellites. What’s special about Tuesday’s mission is that…
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Viasat selects Atlas 5 rocket for broadband satellite launch
File photo of an Atlas 5 rocket launch in 2012, using five strap-on solid rocket boosters. Credit: United Launch Alliance A United Launch Alliance Atlas 5 rocket will send one of Viasat’s next-generation broadband satellites toward geostationary orbit from Cape Canaveral some time between 2020 and 2022, the companies announced Monday. The commercial satellite is…