Updates Boeing's CST-100 Starliner

[garyw]

well, yes but secret

 

[Thunder Chicken]

isscaman said there is a need for multiple launch systems for american access to space - in other words, NASA isn't giving them anymore money and is waiting on boeing to walk away as Boeing are no longer interested in developing starliner and no one else wants to take it on.

Can Starliner (on paper) go anywhere beyond LEO? If there isn't a destination in LEO after ISS is de-orbited, what's the point?

I assume for ITAR as lots of talk about thrusters.

Maybe that, but more likely there are proprietary technologies that Boeing doesn't want shared with competing aerospace firms. Though, if I were in the aerospace business and wanted to crib someone else's homework, I wouldn't be cribbing Boeing's.