Boeing faced more than half a billion dollars of expenses on the CST-100 Starliner program in 2024. Total losses have already exceeded 2 billion dollars.

This information is contained in the company’s annual report filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission on February 3. According to the document, the cost of the Starsliner program in 2024 was $523 million. The company blamed “schedule delays and higher testing and certification costs, as well as higher costs for post-certification missions” for the losses.
This is the largest annual expenditure on Starliner in the history of the program. The previous anti-record was set in 2019, when spending totaled $489 million. Boeing’s total spending on the Starliner has passed the $2 billion mark.
News of another loss followed just days after a meeting of NASA’s Aerospace Safety Advisory Panel. The committee members announced at the meeting that significant progress had been made in investigating problems encountered during Starliner’s first manned flight. At the same time, the key issue related to the safety of the spacecraft’s propulsion system still remains unresolved.
As of now, neither Boeing nor NASA has made a public statement about the next Starliner flight. It is not known if this will be a new crewed or uncrewed test flight, or if it will take place at all. Last year, Boeing executives publicly promised that they would keep to their commitments and continue to develop the spacecraft.
However, there are persistent rumors that the company plans to get rid of at least some of its most troubled space assets. In this situation, the Starliner program would certainly be one of the first candidates for elimination.
According to Spacenews