Sentences with phrase «commercial launch by the end of the 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.

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — Hopes NASA's private partners on the agency's Commercial Crew Program would launch crewed spacecraft by the end of this year (2018) have been dashed.

Indeed, after launching late last year, the Transit has grown volume for seven consecutive months and even had become the No. 1 commercial van in the United States by the end of January.

Going by previous release schedules we'd say that's a rather ambitious estimate but, as the game's creator Chris Roberts has stated, Star Citizen won't have a traditional commercial launch, so it's entirely possible that it will leave alpha by the end of this year / start of next.

Keep in mind that a mid-2018 production start doesn't equate to a mid-2018 commercial launch, the latter of which should still go down by the end of the year, at least in China.