Sentences with phrase «cseries flight test»

Bombardier (TSX: BBD.B) said the CSeries flight test program is «making solid progress» and initial performance results are «in line» with its expectations.

«Through Virgin Galactic's manufacturing arm, The Spaceship Company, we will provide engineering and manufacturing services, along with flight test support and operations as part of our shared ambitions.»

Given the paucity of flight tests, I suspect if used today, the HS - 12 would have a CEP considerably larger than 5 km, perhaps 10 km, or more.»

Facebook's solar - powered drone, which weighs 880 pounds, is now ready for in - flight testing, the company said.

During its flight test, the KN - 18 missile demonstrated a range of around 280 miles before it fell into the Sea of Japan.

HERZLIYA, Israel, Oct 30 - Lockheed Martin Corp said on Tuesday that it was making progress on resolving technical issues facing the cutting - edge helmet being developed for use by F - 35 fighter pilots, and it cited positive initial reports from night flight tests of the system.

Lockheed Martin Corp's new F - 35 fighter jet has completed over a third of its planned flight tests, but it is still facing problems with the helmet needed to fly the plane, software development and weapons integration, according to a report by the Pentagon's chief weapons tester.

Hybrid Air Vehicles runs a robust set of procedures for flight test activities and investigation of issues.

To bring testing to reality, U.S. technology and defense firms, MTSI and SOAR Oregon have been jointly awarded the Flight Test and Range contract.

The idea was to put a twist on the practice of sending dummy payloads into space during flight tests.

Flight tests so far have had good results.

In my background of 46 years in aerospace flight testing and design I have seen many examples of data presentation fraud.

The launch will involve the Falcon Heavy rocket system, which will be the world's most powerful rocket by the time of its first flight test this summer.

He started his career as a flight instructor and later became a flight test engineer.

Our secret weapon Sanogo is finishing his final flight testing at super club Charlton.

The first hypersonic flight test took place in March 2010, with the X-51 reported to have travelled at Mach - 5 but crashing into the Pacific Ocean when its fuel supply was exhausted.

Virgin Atlantic airline announced that early this year it will conduct the first flight test of a biodiesel — petroleum diesel blend in one of the four engines of a 747 aircraft; Air New Zealand is planning a similar test flight on a Rolls Royce engine in one of its 747s later in the year.

During its first free flight test at night, Morpheus (a Human Exploration and Operations MD project) tests NASA's ALHAT and an engine that runs on liquid oxygen and methane, which are green propellants.

A preview of this type of mission capabilities occurred during the Orion Exploration Flight Test - 1 (EFT - 1) in December 2014.

He rode along on the flight tests to keep an eye on the coatings and watch for any anomalies.

The first such map, from just 89 days of in - flight testing, is 10 times better than 3 decades of gravity data from all other sources combined, says aerospace engineer Byron Tapley of the University of Texas, Austin, leader of the U.S. GRACE team.

Even if this round of flight tests bolsters the case for the use of NASA Langley's bug coatings, it will probably be quite some time before they end up on commercial airliners.

That's why a group of researchers at NASA's Langley Research Center — the «bug team» — recently ran several flight tests of coatings that may one day reduce the amount of bug contamination on the wings of commercial aircraft.

«During the flight tests we successfully transitioned from hover to wing - borne flight like a conventional airplane then back to hover again.

«Ten - engine electric plane completes successful flight test.»

Research supervisor Professor Simon Watkins, said flight testing on a micro plane showed the system significantly reduced the effects of turbulence.

«Our standard paradigm [in the test and evaluation world] is we have a vehicle in the air and people on the ground and there's a telemetry stream of data coming down so people can monitor the vehicle,» explains researcher Charles H. Jones of the Edwards Flight Test Center.

Although computational fluid dynamics and wind - tunnel experimentation can provide vital clues, practical solutions probably demand actual flight testing, which is expensive.

With the completion of this latest safety - testing milestone of key systems, Mark Sirangelo, corporate vice president of Space Systems at Sierra Nevada, says that this stage of the Dream Chaser program, before NASA announces a winner, is «90 to 95 percent complete,» with at least one more landing flight test and tests of the thrusters remaining.

«After a few more flight tests — in order to assure everything is working properly — it should be ready for commercial use,» claims co-author Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology Inc. in Worcester, Massachusetts, in a press release.

«The engineers at Marshall were developing a simple adaptive control law, and wanted to flight test it,» said Chris Miller, chief engineer for the Launch Vehicle Adaptive Control (LVAC) project at NASA Armstrong.

During Electron's first flight test in May, the rocket was destroyed when operators lost contact with it and ended the flight before the craft reached orbit.

«But in lieu of a launch vehicle flight test, we need to find creative ways to mature it through testing in a relevant environment.

An unmanned 21 - foot - wingspan prototype called the X-48B had its first flight test in July.

This flight test was THAAD's seventh intercept to date and proved the system's ability to intercept a unitary target in the low endo - atmosphere.

The Missile Defense Agency and Lockheed Martin conducted a successful flight test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Weapon System at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai, HI.

From NASA: «NASA's Commercial Crew astronauts Doug Hurney, Eric Boe, Bob Behnken, and Suni Williams are working closely with Boeing and SpaceX this year as each company works toward flight tests.»

Boeing's «Orbital Flight Test» is slated to take place in August, along with SpaceX's «Demonstration Mission 1.»

In advance of a congressional hearing next week on the status of the commercial crew program, NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) has released new dates for when Boeing and SpaceX will conduct flight tests of their CST - 100 Starliner and Crew Dragon spacecraft.

Design certification signifies that the system can «safely approach, dock, mate, and depart from ISS» followed by certification that determines whether the company has completed the flight tests and other activities and meets CCP requirements.

The engineering test article for Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Dream Chaser «spaceplane» flew its long - awaited second free flight test this weekend (Nov 11, 2017) over NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, located at Edwards Air -LSB-...]

In an interview with Space News, Ferguson indicated that «our crewed flight test is fourth quarter — perhaps, depending on the outcome, maybe the first quarter of the following year.»

Following the flight test program and certification by NASA, the company has been contracted for six crewed flights to the International Space Station.

GAO cites the CCP program manager as explaining that its analysis is based not only on statements from the companies, but takes into account that the companies «are aggressive and use their schedule dates to motivate their teams» and «assume an efficiency factor in getting to the crewed flight test that NASA does not factor into its analysis.»

If NASA opts to increase the crew size and mission length of Boeing's Crew Flight Test, the agency said it wouldn't be the first time it has «expanded the scope of test flights.»

In this handout provided by U.S. Navy, Navy divers, assigned to Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 11 (EODMU11), Mobile Dive and Salvage Company 11 - 7, attach a towing bridal to the Orion Crew Module during the first Exploration Flight Test (EFT - 1) NASA Orion Program following its launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Space Launch Complex 37 December 5, 2014 in the Pacific Ocean, 600 miles southwest of San Diego.

The flight test crew would then use the vehicle to return home to the United States, completing the test.

Still a flight test, the objective is to launch the Atlas V from Space Launch Complex 41 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and place the CST - 100 on a path to the station.

On November 8, 2017, NASA released an update following a schedule review of Exploration Mission - 1 (EM - 1), the first uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft to the Moon.

During this period, in - flight tests were conducted on the spacecraft's Alice ultraviolet imaging spectrometer and Pluto Energetic Particle Spectrometer Science Investigation (PEPSSI), as well as LORRI, and New Horizons passed the orbit of Mars in April 2006.