Tag: Boeing

Boeing Announces More Than $50 Million in Grants to Support Nonprofits Worldwide

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 Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced more than $50 million in grants to more than 500 nonprofit organizations across 50 countries globally. The annual contributions include a three-year commitment of more than $25 million in support of veterans’ recovery and rehabilitation programs and transition services. The charitable grants package will fund programs through 2018 and supplement an anticipated $117 million in company-wide business Read more about Boeing Announces More Than $50 Million in Grants to Support Nonprofits Worldwide[…]

Phantom Express is envisioned as a highly autonomous experimental spaceplane

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Boeing [NYSE: BA] and the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) are collaborating to design, build and test a technology demonstration vehicle for the Experimental Spaceplane (XS-1) program. Boeing will develop an autonomous, reusable spaceplane capable of carrying and deploying a small expendable upper stage to launch small (3,000 pound/1,361 kg) satellites into low Read more about Phantom Express is envisioned as a highly autonomous experimental spaceplane[…]

The first privately funded commercial airlock

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NanoRacks, LLC will partner with Boeing on the building and installation of the first commercial airlock module, which will attach to the U.S. segment on the International Space Station (ISS). In May 2016, NanoRacks and NASA signed a Space Act Agreement in order to install a private airlock module onboard the International Space Station – Read more about The first privately funded commercial airlock[…]

Boeing Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Can Operate Autonomously for Months

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Boeing [NYSE: BA] today introduced Echo Voyager, its latest unmanned, undersea vehicle (UUV), which can operate autonomously for months at a time thanks to a hybrid rechargeable power system and modular payload bay. The 51-foot-long vehicle is not only autonomous while underway, but it can also be launched and recovered without the support ships that Read more about Boeing Unmanned Undersea Vehicle Can Operate Autonomously for Months[…]