Tag: Boeing
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Top 5 things to do at Museum of Flight’s ‘Above and Beyond’ aerospace exhibit
London visitor Letu Yang helps his 4-year-old son, Rafael Yang, fly a custom-built jet through a “Full Throttle” simulation at the “Above and Beyond” exhibit at the Museum of Flight. (GeekWire photo by Alan Boyle) Most of the floor space at Seattle’s Museum of Flight is set aside to celebrate past glories of aerospace – but “Above…
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First astronaut flight on Boeing capsule slips to 2018
The first piloted test flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner commercial crew capsule has been delayed to early 2018 as designers wrestle with the mass of the spacecraft, aerodynamic loads the vehicle will see during launch, and new software requirements levied by NASA, company officials said. Boeing hoped to launch the first CST-100 Starliner with astronauts…
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Boeing’s Starliner schedule for sending astronauts into orbit slips to 2018
The hull of a CST-100 Starliner structural test vehicle is assembled inside Boeing’s Commercial Crew and Cargo Processing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. (Credit: NASA) A top Boeing executive said today that the company plans to start sending crews into orbit aboard its CST-100 Starliner space taxi in 2018, which represents a…
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Boeing borrows from inventory to speed docking adapter delivery
Photo of the second International Docking Adapter awaiting launch at the Kennedy Space Center’s Space Station Processing Facility. Credit: NASA/Charles Babir Spare parts warehoused in the the United States and Russia will help Boeing finish assembly of a third space station docking port to receive arriving astronauts aboard Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner and SpaceX’s Crew Dragon…
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SpaceX hopes to raise launch tempo after space station flight
File photo of a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX is targeting April 8 for the launch of its first resupply run to the International Space Station in nearly a year, a mission that the company hopes will mark the start of a rapid-fire launch manifest full of payloads waiting to fly. The early…
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New GPS satellite begins transmitting to users around the globe
CAPE CANAVERAL — Air Force ground controllers have activated service aboard the newest Global Positioning System satellite, achieving that milestone for the final spacecraft in a dozen built in a manufacturing batch to update the constellation. The GPS 2F-12 craft was launched into the navigation network from Cape Canaveral atop a United Launch Alliance Atlas…
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Photos: Sunset sendoff for SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket
A final set of photos shows Friday’s Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral with the SES 9 communications satellite. The 229-foot-tall rocket lifted off at 6:35 p.m. EST (2335 GMT) from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad, soaring east over the Atlantic Ocean about 10 minutes after sunset. Consuming a super-chilled mix of kerosene and…
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Photos: Falcon 9 takes off at sunset
A Falcon 9 launcher bolted into the sky over Florida’s Space Coast on Friday, adding the brilliant orange glare of rocket exhaust to a spectacular sunset as the 229-foot-tall booster propelled the SES 9 communications satellite into orbit to serve the Asia-Pacific with high-definition television programming and connectivity on-the-go. SpaceX’s kerosene-fueled rocket fired up at…
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TV broadcasting satellite finally launched on Falcon 9
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket blasted off at 6:35 p.m. EST (2335 GMT) Friday. Credit: SpaceX Powering off the planet just after sunset Friday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took off from Cape Canaveral with the multi-mission SES 9 communications satellite to link millions of homes, businesses, ships and airplanes across the Asia-Pacific. The commercial telecom…
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Photos: Sun sets on Falcon 9 rocket at Cape Canaveral
Check out photos of a picturesque sunset at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad, where a Falcon 9 rocket is poised for liftoff with a commercial broadcasting satellite for Luxembourg-based SES. Photo credit: SpaceX Email the author. Follow Stephen Clark on Twitter: @StephenClark1.