Connecting Your World

Boeing Commercial Satellites designs and sells communications satellites and payloads for commercial telecommunications, broadband, scientific and environmental applications. Boeing-built spacecraft routinely relay digital communications, mobile communications, internet connectivity, telephone calls, video conferences, television programming and direct-to-home entertainment.

Programs include O3b mPOWER, a seven-satellite constellation that will provide high-performance data communications coverage to the “other three billion” people around the world without internet access and cover an area of nearly 155 million square miles, four-fifths of the earth’s surface; and JCSAT-18/Kacific1, a single satellite with two distinct payloads that will improve mobile and broadband services in the Asia-Pacific region and provide high-speed broadband internet to more than 25 countries in South East Asia and the Pacific.

Satellite Services

Boeing Commercial Satellite Services (BCSS) delivers satellite communications to our partners operating on land, sea, and in air. We offer secure, scalable, military-grade solutions that are flexible and responsive to demanding, dynamic mission needs.

Protecting What Matters

Boeing Government Satellite Systems delivers the company’s major satellite and ground solutions for military and civil communications, intelligence, national defense and other classified programs.  

Programs include the Wideband Global SATCOM (WGS) system comprising the U.S. Department of Defense’s highest-capacity military communications satellites; Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF block of satellites, which are now providing advanced navigation services to modernize the constellation; and six NASA Tracking and Data Relay Satellites. Boeing also provided the Space Based Space Surveillance (SBSS) system, the only space-based sensor in the U.S. Air Force Space Surveillance Network with the ability to detect distant space objects regardless of weather, atmosphere or time of day.

These systems supply communications and position, navigation and timing technology for domestic and international customers and meet many of the military and civil space system requirements of the U.S. government.

In addition, Boeing is the prime contractor for the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, the newest and most advanced unmanned re-entry spacecraft used by the U.S. Air Force to perform risk-reduction and experimentation for reusable space vehicle technologies.