Boeing’s Starliner Losses Reach $2 Billion
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 3 Feb 2025
In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission today, Boeing said it experienced a total of $523 million in losses in the Starliner Commercial Crew Program in 2024. That
Former head of Boeing’s Starliner program returns to role
Spaceflight Now · 31 Jan 2025
The change in leadership follows the decision made in 2024 by Mark Nappi, the former VP and program manager of CCP, to retire from Boeing in February.
Safety panel reports progress in Starliner investigation
SpaceNews · 31 Jan 2025
Boeing and NASA are making “significant progress” on addressing issues seen on a test flight of the company’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft last year, an independent NASA safety panel says
NASA Small Business Funding Enables Aircraft Inspection by Drone
NASA · 3 Jan 2025
A small business called Near Earth Autonomy developed a time-saving solution using drones for pre-flight checks of commercial airliners through a NASA Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and a partnership w...
Artemis II Core Stage Moves to High Bay 2
NASA · 16 Dec 2024
In this image from Dec. 11, 2024, the 212-foot-tall SLS (Space Launch System) core stage is lowered into High Bay 2 at the Vehicle Assembly Building at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. With the move to High Bay 2,...
Boeing ships first two redesigned O3b mPower satellites
SpaceNews · 13 Nov 2024
Boeing has shipped the first pair of O3b mPower satellites with fixes addressing power issues that have hobbled the initial six in SES’s next-generation medium Earth orbit broadband network.
Boeing finishing expansion of NASA SLS Core Stage production facilities at KSC
NASASpaceflight · 7 Nov 2024
NASA and Space Launch System core stage prime contractor Boeing are working to finish activating new production facilities at the Kennedy Space Center, to complete and deliver the next two units by the end of 2026. After...
NASA Safety Panel Praises NASA’s Response To Starliner CFT Anomalies
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 1 Nov 2024
NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel is praising NASA for how it dealt with decision-making when Boeing’s Starliner Crew Flight Test experienced several anomalies this summer. Ultimately NASA decided to return...
Crew-8 on the Way Home at Last
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 24 Oct 2024
Crew-8 undocked from the International Space Station this afternoon, two months later than planned. Their mission was extended first while NASA was deciding what to do about Boeing’s Starliner crew...
Boeing losses on Starliner increase by $250 million
SpaceNews · 24 Oct 2024
Boeing is taking another charge against earnings of $250 million on its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew program as the company’s new leader vowed it will not walk away from troubled programs like it.
Boeing Takes Another $250 Million Charge for Starliner
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 23 Oct 2024
Boeing is taking another $250 million charge against earnings to pay for cost overruns on the Starliner commercial crew program. The company is operating under a $4.2 billion fixed price...
NASA further delays first operational Starliner flight
SpaceNews · 17 Oct 2024
NASA will use SpaceX’s Crew Dragon for its two crew rotation missions to the International Space Station in 2025 as it continues to evaluate if it will require Boeing to perform another test flight of its Starliner space...
Boeing plans more commercial crew charges
SpaceNews · 12 Oct 2024
Boeing expects to take up to several hundred million dollars in additional charges against earnings for its CST-100 Starliner commercial crew program in the third quarter.
SpaceX, NASA launches Crew-9 with two people
NASASpaceflight · 28 Sep 2024
SpaceX and NASA have launched Crew-9 for its six-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, originally set to launch with four people, launched with only two. The empty se...
Girls in STEM Inspired to Fly High at NASA Kennedy
NASA · 24 Sep 2024
For the third straight year, scores of young women flew to NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida to learn how to make their aviation dreams take flight as part of the Delta Air Lines Women Inspiring our Next Generation...
Starliner astronauts adjust to long-term ISS stay
SpaceNews · 13 Sep 2024
The NASA astronauts left on the International Space Station after Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft returned to Earth uncrewed said they supported NASA’s decision but believed that, given more time, the agency may ha...
Boeing plots 2026 quantum networking satellite demo
SpaceNews · 10 Sep 2024
Boeing plans to deploy a small satellite in 2026 to test technology needed for a quantum internet capable of connecting more advanced sensors and computers worldwide, the company announced Sept. 10.
Starliner returns to Earth uncrewed
SpaceNews · 7 Sep 2024
Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft successfully landed in New Mexico early Sept. 7, completing the Crew Flight Test mission but without any crew on board.
NASA, Boeing Welcome Starliner Spacecraft to Earth, Close Mission
NASA · 7 Sep 2024
NASA and Boeing safely returned the uncrewed Starliner spacecraft following its landing at 10:01 p.m. MDT Sept. 6 at White Sands Space Harbor in New Mexico, concluding a three-month flight test to the International Space...
Starliner’s Crew Flight Test Comes to an End
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 6 Sep 2024
Boeing’s Starliner capsule undocked from the International Space Station at 6:04 pm ET and is on its way to a landing in New Mexico about 5 hours from now at
Starliner Calypso has undocked and returned to Earth without CFT crew
NASASpaceflight · 6 Sep 2024
The Boeing Starliner Calypso, which launched to the International Space Station on June 5 with two experienced astronauts on board, is about to undock from ISS after three months on orbit — but with those fliers staying...
Boeing Starliner returns to Earth empty, months later than planned
CNBC · 6 Sep 2024
Boeing’s Starliner undocked from the International Space Station on Friday, months later than the spacecraft was originally supposed to depart — and without the two astronauts that it delivered to orbit in early June.
NASA’s Boeing Starliner Mission Landing Criteria, Timeline
NASA · 5 Sep 2024
As NASA and Boeing prepare to return the company’s Starliner spacecraft uncrewed from the International Space Station to Earth, safety and mission success remain as top priorities for the teams. Mission managers will com...
Starliner Ready to Come Home
SpacePolicyOnline.com · 5 Sep 2024
Boeing’s Starliner capsule is two days away from returning to Earth after an eventful crewed flight test. NASA said today they will close the hatches tomorrow with undocking set for
NASA prepares for Starliner return from ISS
SpaceNews · 4 Sep 2024
NASA is preparing for the uncrewed return to Earth of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft as the agency begins work on changes to the spacecraft to correct problems found during its test flight.
The Marshall Star for September 4, 2024
NASA · 4 Sep 2024
Rocket Hardware for Future Artemis Flights Moved to Barge for Delivery to Kennedy NASA is making strides with the Artemis campaign as key components for the SLS (Space Launch System) rocket continue to make their way to...
Slow Burn: How Starliner’s crewed test flight went awry
SpaceNews · 4 Sep 2024
When NASA and Boeing officials walked into the briefing room at the Kennedy Space Center on June 5, they were all smiles. After years of development setbacks, weeks of delays
Hague and Gorbunov to fly Crew-9 mission to ISS
SpaceNews · 30 Aug 2024
A veteran NASA astronaut and rookie Russian cosmonaut will fly to the International Space Station in September as the downsized crew of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft, a ripple effect of problems with Boeing’s Starliner...