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Let us know your thoughts in the comments or via Twitter – Twitter testing ‘Go Live’ Periscope button for Android military, made its 49th successful flight late on Tuesday.Our #FridaySocial is a weekly round-up of the key social media news stories from the previous seven days. ULA’s Atlas 5, which is mostly used by the U.S. So far, the company’s Falcon 9 rockets have flown 12 times, all successfully. The company also has been successfully wooing commercial satellite launches, a business estimated to be worth $2.4 billion a year, a 2014 Satellite Industry Association study shows. A lawsuit contesting the Air Force’s last contract with ULA is pending in a U.S. Meanwhile, SpaceX has been aggressively exploiting the price advantage of its American-made rocket to try to break ULA’s monopoly on launching the U.S. The agreement is aimed at freeing the United States from its dependency on Russian-made engines for rockets for launches and is expected to have little effect on the space taxi. Separately, Boeing and Lockheed announced on Wednesday that United Launch Alliance would invest heavily in a new rocket engine being developed by Inc AMZN.O founder Jeff Bezos and his private company space company Blue Origin. The contract revenue would hit Boeing’s income statement mostly in 20, he added. “They’re not pushing the envelope in terms of technology the way SpaceX is” in developing a new rocket, said Ken Herbert, an analyst at Canaccord Genuity in San Francisco.
The taxi project appears to be well within Boeing’s core space capabilities, which suggests it will not have trouble meeting its cost and schedule targets, analysts said. The rockets, which are powered by a Russian RD-180 engine, cost about $150 million apiece. Boeing’s CST-100 capsules will fly aboard Atlas 5 rockets, which are manufactured and flown by United Launch Alliance, a partnership of Lockheed Martin Corp LMT.N and Boeing.
SpaceX's Dragon capsule will fly on the company's Falcon 9 boosters, which cost about $61 million for satellite-delivery missions. Most of the price difference appears to be the rocket. “I think it’s a vital next step in SpaceX’s progress,” Musk said in an interview on FOX Business Network. California-based SpaceX, owned and operated by technology entrepreneur Elon Musk, says it can create and fly the taxi for $2.6 billion, compared to Boeing’s $4.2 billion bid. The NASA contracts awarded on Tuesday to Boeing and SpaceX cover design, building, testing their spaceship and up to six missions to fly astronauts to the station, a pace of roughly two per year. SpaceX already plans to offer trips to tourists, but did not immediately respond to questions about whether it would fly tourists on its NASA missions. The aerospace company appears to be confident it can produce the taxi without lowering the operating margin in its networks and space business, which was 7.8 percent last quarter.īut Boeing faces competition from rival Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, which also won a NASA contract and says it can develop the taxi for nearly 40 percent less than Boeing. Under the contract, Boeing is responsible for cost overruns and the cost of delays. Space Adventures is scheduled in January to begin training British singer Sarah Brightman for a 10-day visit to the station, a trip costing $52 million, according to Tom Shelley, president of Space Adventures.īrightman is slated to become the eighth paying passenger to travel to the station, a $100 billion research complex that flies about 260 miles (418 km) above Earth.īoeing’s first test launch of the taxi is not expected until 2017.Ĭommercial flights may also help Boeing’s bottom line on a rare, fixed-price, government-backed development program. “We think it would be important to help spur this industry.” to start working with the ISS program to make it happen,” he said. Now that Boeing has won a share of NASA’s space taxi contract, “we hope. “Part of our proposal into NASA would be flying a Space Adventures spaceflight participant up to the ISS,” Mulholland said, referring to a Virginia-based space tourism company that brokers travel aboard Russian Soyuz capsules. The $4.2 billion, five-year contract allows Boeing to sell rides to tourists, Boeing Commercial Crew Program Manager John Mulholland told Reuters, adding that the price would be competitive with what the Russian space agency now charges to fly tourists to the orbital outpost. NASA astronaut Randy Bresnik prepares to enter Boeing's CST-100 spacecraft for a fit check evaluation at the company's Houston Product Support Center in this undated image.
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