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Boeing will equip the U.S. Army with more Next Generation Automated Test System units within a three-year period under an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract of up to $92 million. The aerospace company said Thursday NGATS will be utilized on M109A7 Paladin and Black Hawk helicopters aside from Army platforms to automate the detection of component issues. NGATS […] More
David Joyce, a four-decade veteran of General Electric, has been appointed chairman of AE Industrial Partners’ venture capital investment platform HorizonX. He will also serve as a strategic adviser to the private equity firm across its investment portfolio, AEI said Wednesday. AEI HorizonX invests in startups operating in aerospace, defense, enterprise and industrial markets. “I […] More
The Missile Defense Agency has officially accepted two new Ground-based Interceptors from Boeing at its facility in Fort Greely, Alaska. The interceptors are part of the Service Life Extension Program for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense anti-ballistic missile system, the company said Monday. “The Ground-Based Interceptors remain the only operationally deployed missile component of GMD. These […] More
SES has launched the first two Boeing-built O3b mPOWER satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. he satellites, which represent SES’ second-generation medium earth orbit system, were lifted off to space by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 5:48 pm, the company announced from the station on Friday. Jim Chilton “From concept to reality, the partnership […] More
Boeing’s Spectrolab subsidiary will provide 3,360 NeXt Triple Junction solar cells for a NASA spacecraft that will be used for the agency’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission. NASA’s SWOT initiative is expected to launch this month to investigate the ocean’s surface topography and cycle in order to gain insights that could help communities prepare for […] More
NASA’s uncrewed Orion spacecraft returned to Earth and made a parachute-assisted splashdown on Sunday in the Pacific Ocean after 25.5 days of traveling around the moon as part of the Artemis I mission. Artemis I is an unmanned flight test that took off on Nov. 16 from a launch complex at Kennedy Space Center in […] More
Boeing’s Aurora Flight Sciences subsidiary has received a potential $42.2 million contract to perform work on the next phase of a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency program that seeks to demonstrate an aircraft design based on active flow control. Aurora will work on the second and third phases of the Control of Revolutionary Aircraft with […] More
Lockheed Martin‘s uncrewed Orion capsule has surpassed the farthest distance ever traveled by a human-rated spacecraft, CNN reported Monday. NASA confirmed that the capsule, which launched Nov. 16 aboard the Space Launch System powered by Boeing‘s core stage, has so far flown 270,000 miles from Earth. The distance is more than 40,000 miles past the […] More
Boeing and NASA conducted a field test to determine the carbon emission rate from using sustainable fuel blends on the 2022 ecoDemonstrator aircraft powered by 26-year-old Rolls-Royce Trent 800 engines. NASA said the study advances a goal similar with Boeing’s to adopt alternative fuels in order to reduce aerospace-related carbon footprint. Researchers compared the amount […] More
Boeing’s Millennium Space Systems subsidiary has finished conducting a critical design review of Space Systems Command’s Missile Track Custody mission payload. Jason Kim, CEO of Millennium Space Systems, said in a statement published Wednesday the company has developed a system and digital model designed to help the customer track hypersonic glide vehicles and other modern […] More
The U.S. Navy has declared initial operational capability status for a Boeing-built anti-submarine warfare weapon system that is designed to deploy from the P-8A maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft. Boeing said Tuesday the High Altitude Anti-Submarine Warfare Weapon Capability includes a modular air launch accessory kit that works to transform a MK 54 torpedo into […] More
A venture capital partnership between Boeing and AE Industrial Partners participated in a recent seed funding round for Solestial, which is developing solar panel technology designed to power satellites. The investment marks AEI HorizonX’s maiden outlay in its second venture fund that backs startup companies in the space, mobility, digital enterprise, security, networking and sustainability […] More
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