22 May 2020
Countdown to SpaceX’s historic Crew Dragon launch
... to seed this sector of the commercial industry. NASA chose capsule designs from SpaceX and Boeing — Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner — at the time. This Crew Dragon test flight, called Demo-2 and required for NASA...
23 December 2019
New launch target for SpaceX abort test
The next big test of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon astronaut capsule won’t happen before 11 January, 2020 after NASA announced at least a one-week delay just before Christmas. SpaceX must get NASA’s approval to transport humans aboard Crew Dragon and this ...
04 August 2021
Starliner launch delayed indefinitely following "valve" problems
... its important uncrewed flight test to the space station. Boeing is designing, building, testing and flying the CST-100 Starliner under a contract with NASA’s Commercial Crew Programme. The space agency is also funding SpaceX...
June 2020
Astrovan II - your ride to space is here
... crewed spacecraft. And, second, because the company’s CST-100 Starliner - due to transport American astronauts to...was built specifically as a crew transfer vehicle for Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner, it incorporates Boeing’s trademark blue colour into ...
April 2018
Transforming the launch market for small spacecraft
... authors Alan Perera-Webb is a project and business development manager at Commercial Space Technologies (CST), London, UK. During his seven years at CST he has managed market, trajectory and facilities studies for a number of proposed UK spaceport...
March 2016
Space industrialisation needs balanced legal and policy approach
... frontier last September when its commercial human-rated spaceship was officially named CST-100 Starliner after previously being known simply as CST-100. An uncrewed test launch to the International Space Station (ISS) is planned for...
