Sentences with phrase «conducting flight tests»

South Korean Prime Minister convened an emergency meeting and Seoul released details of conducting flight tests of two types of new missiles.

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.

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Samsung recently released a video showing the multiple tests conducted on the Galaxy Note 4, including drops from various heights, and a «tumble test» that recreates what it's like to drop your phone down a flight of stairs.

Russia has so far carried out four tests of the Yu - 71, with the most recent test flight conducted on Feb. 26, Russia's Sputnik News reported, citing a recent report by Jane's Intelligence Review.

Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos» Blue Origin conducted a successful in - flight escape test of its New Shepard spacecraft.

Earlier today, the Airbus» A340 «BLADE» test demonstrator aircraft conducted its first flight for the Clean Sky «Blade» project.

For years Chakrabarti and his colleagues have been pursuing a middle way between the laboratory and orbit, using NASA funding to conduct low - cost test flights of these advanced optics technologies with small suborbital rockets and high - altitude balloons that reach the edge of outer space.

Roughly half of the $ 50 million Project Blue hopes to raise will support further development and testing of coronagraph systems, with the rest going to building flight hardware, booking a rocket and conducting the mission.

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.

Several U.S. carriers, including Continental Airlines, have conducted successful test flights using alternative fuels, but significant hurdles remain before these can be certified for commercial use.

Over the past few months, pilots have conducted several test flights of the space - launch vehicle Eve.

The maiden voyage of the 11 - ounce laser plane lasted just 15 minutes; moreover, its test flight was conducted indoors to avoid problems created by wind or bad weather.

On a drive home from the laboratory, researchers in Canada conducted a straightforward experiment: They traveled stretches of road with various speed limits (20, 50, 90, and 110 kilometers per hour) and tested how close a bird on or beside the road (like the magpie above) would allow the advancing car to come before fleeing its dangerous position — a measure called flight initiation distance.

Two NASA astronauts conducted flight suit evaluations inside a fully outfitted test version of The Boeing Company's CST - 100 spacecraft July 22, the first time the world got a glimpse of the crew capsule's interior.

Following today's firing, Stennis and Aerojet Rocketdyne will conduct a development engine series to test new flight engine controllers and will continue to test RS - 25 flight engines.

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.

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.

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.

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two — pictured here — recently conducted its third successful flight test in a row, reaching its highest altitude to date of 71,000 ft. Image Credit: Virgin Galactic

That includes the cost of developing two new launch vehicles from scratch (Falcon 1 and Falcon 9), developing the Dragon spacecraft, conducting seven launches, including an orbital test flight of Dragon, and building out the infrastructure for two separate launch sites.

He conducted three spacewalks totaling almost 20 hours that included testing tools for the first Hubble Telescope repair mission, construction of the International Space Station, and the test flight of an astronaut jet pack.

NASA's Commercial Crew Program, which will employ private contractors to transport astronauts to the International Space Station, has taken a step closer to crewed flights as the two prime contractors conduct the latest round of tests of their spacecraft parachute systems.

In the early days of flight, airmail pilots conducted dry runs or «pathfinder» flights to test the flying schedule, survey landing strips and facilities at intermediate airfields, and acquaint themselves with the full length of the route.

Airbus conducted the first successful test flight of its Vahana electric vertical take - off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft on January 31st, the aerospace giant announced.

Virgin Galactic has conducted the first powered test flight of its new space tourism rocket.

The company conducted over 1,000 test flights with human passengers, including a 984 - foot (300 - meter) vertical climb, a weight test carrying over 500 pounds (230 kilograms), a routed test flight covering 9.3 miles (15 kilometers), and a high - speed cruising test that reached 80.7 mph (130 km / h).

The money will help in the development of the company's air taxi prototype, which, according to a report in Bloomberg, has been conducting test flights at Joby's private airfield in Northern California.

Last month, aerospace giant Airbus conducted the first successful test flight of its Vahana electric vertical take - off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.

Common duties of an Aeronautical Engineer include conducting research, designing aircraft systems, coordinating test flights, recording test results, and managing computer systems.

KEY QUALIFICATIONS • Commercial MEL and CEL certification • Functional knowledge of planning, conducting and directing flight test programs • Competent at performing preflight inspections and post flight maintenance procedures • Hands on experience in providing excellence in passenger customer services en route to destinations • Conversant with studying weather patterns of departure area, destinations and flight routes

Conducted system runs using scenarios that provided information regarding anticipated flight tests

Proficient at conducting research and development for aircraft design, assembling, modifying and calibrating components, and conducting flight - test calculations.