Sentences with phrase «begin flight tests»

The Boeing team expects to begin its flight testing this year.

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As SpaceX and Boeing race to begin test flights of their crew - rated vehicles by year - end 2018, all eyes are on the commercial launch providers ---- and what their success will mean for the American entrepreneurial space industry.

Alonso is due to begin testing for the Indy 500 this week and wanted to get an earlier flight to the US, but couldn't find one:

The first tests of the CEV's rocket are scheduled for 2009, with manned flights to low Earth orbit beginning by 2014 (even that hard - charging schedule will leave a gap in America's manned spaceflight program after the planned retirement of the shuttle in 2010).

After VSS Enterprise and VMS Eve test flights are completed, Virgin Galactic will begin commercial operations here at Spaceport America.

When test flights begin next year, Eve and SpaceShipTwo will be equipped with National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration instruments to measure carbon dioxide, methane and other heat - trapping gases in the upper atmosphere.

The company said it hopes to begin test flights as early as this summer.

Specifically, Doug Rodante, president of Green Flight International (a company in Florida that promotes alternative aviation fuels), and chief test pilot Carol Sugars, a senior pilot with the United Parcel Service (UPS), conducted extensive fuel tests on the ground, beginning with a 20 percent blend of biodiesel and normal jet fuel (kerosene known as Jet A) and progressing to 100 percent biodiesel (B100) as their confidence increased.

If the tests are a success, passenger flights could begin as soon as late 2011.

As noted on Ars Technica, both Boeing and SpaceX have expressed confidence that uncrewed test flights would begin before the close of this year (2018), according to the Ars Technica report, a U.S. House Subcommittee on Space hearing cast doubt on these assertions.

The 1,025 - pound spacecraft is currently sitting in a vacuum chamber at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland, where it is undergoing tests before being shipped to Kennedy Space Center to begin launch preparations.

StemRad, a developer of revolutionary technology that shields first responders, astronauts and soldiers from harmful radiation exposure, announced today that NASA and the Israel Space Agency have signed an agreement for the launch of StemRad's AstroRad radiation protection vest aboard NASA's EM - 1 mission around the moon, the last test flight before the space agency begins deep space manned missions.

The FAA will now begin testing electronic devices, like the Apple iPad and Amazon Kindle, on flights to determine whether or not they cause interference with the aircraft's avionics.

The testing will begin on business class international flights in May.

Following a testing phase that began last year onboard some of its Airbus A380 flights, Dubai - based Emirates Airlines is launching in - flight Wi - Fi for passengers aboard 11 of the airline's 19 A380s, via its Internet connectivity provider OnAir.

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