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Throughout the history of America’s human spaceflight program, there’s been an alternating pattern in regards to abort systems. From Alan Shepard’s first flight in 1961 on, every Mercury capsule was equipped with a Launch Escape System (LES) tower that could pull the spacecraft away from a malfunctioning rocket. But by …read more
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Boeing is lifting another suite of experimental technologies into the air as part of its EcoDemonstrator program, again packing a modified jetliner with forward-looking features hoped to one day improve air travel. Traveling aboard this time around are 50 projects in all, including ones geared toward smart toilets and others toward improving passengers’ view outside the plane.
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With the backing of Google co-founder Larry Page, California-based startup Kitty Hawk already has some noteworthy names attached to its flying taxi endeavors. And it has now found another in heavyweight Boeing, with the industry veteran teaming up with its fresh-faced counterpart to accelerate the age of electric aviation.
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Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraft has completed its fifth, final, and most dangerous parachute test. At an altitude of 40,000 ft (12,200 m), the boilerplate capsule was released from a balloon and dropped safely to the desert floor at the… Continue reading Boeing Starliner completes last and most difficult parachute test
At NASA’s White Sands Test Facility in New Mexico, Boeing recently completed live-fire tests of the complex array of thrusters that will be used to guide the seven-passenger spacecraft in orbit and provide propulsion for the emergency abort s… Continue reading Boeing CST-100 Starliner completes hot-fire thruster tests
In the Leadership and Communications segment, How to build a startup, You Don’t Have To Be Nice To Be Respected. Boeing and the Importance of Encouraging Employees to Speak Up, and more! Leadership Articles How to build a startup: 7 tips from… Continue reading Leadership Articles – Business Security Weekly #127
In the Leadership and Communications segment, How Boeing Should Have Responded to the 737 Max Safety Crisis, Digital Transformation is Not About Technology, Gartner’s Top 10 Security Projects for 2019, and more! Full Show Notes Hosts  … Continue reading Leadership Articles – Business Security Weekly #121
When the first 737 MAX entered service in May of 2017, it was considered a major milestone for Boeing. For nearly a decade, the aerospace giant had been working on a more fuel efficient iteration of the classic 737 that first took to the skies in 1967. Powered by cutting-edge …read more
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The company says it has been working on an update to the system implicated in a deadly 2018 crash. Continue reading Boeing to Update Planes’ Software After Two Deadly Crashes
You’ve got to admit, things have been going exceptionally well for SpaceX. In the sixteen years they’ve been in operation, they’ve managed to tick off enough space “firsts” to make even established aerospace players blush. They’re the first privately owned company to not only design and launch their own orbital-class …read more
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