Sentences with phrase «during flight tests»

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

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

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

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They partnered with a company called Latitude, which builds unmanned aircrafts, to carry out the test flight and demonstrate the promise of drones for the delivery of medical care and supplies to those in rural communities or during emergency situations.

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo crashed during a test flight.

It is common for rockets to carry a dummy payload during test flights.

An OH - 58D Kiowa Warrior from Task Force Saber, 82nd Combat Aviation Brigade, fires a 2.75 - inch rocket at a mountainside during a test flight in eastern Afghanistan, March 2, 2012.

The company is now looking at selling space on the rockets during test flights to accommodate experiments and researches.

Jeff Bezos» space company Blue Origin successfully landed one of its New Shepard spacecraft during a test flight on Friday.

Rockwell Collins enables airspace management during test flights for NASA's UAS Traffic Management program

Rockwell Collins enables airspace management during test flights for NASA's UAS Traffic Management program - Apr 30, 2018 - Rockwell Collins recently participated in two weeks of critical testing for the NASA Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Traffic Management (UTM) program.

Last October, BioJet 1 — a 1968 Czechoslovakian L - 29 fighter jet — reached around 17,000 feet (5,200 meters) on 100 percent biodiesel during a test flight in Reno, Nev..

The natural gas - derived synfuel performed perfectly in both planes during ground tests, flights and even during cold starts in the dead of winter in Minot, N. Dak..

During the past year and a half, Scaled Composites has completed successful test flights involving both the mother - ship drop and SS2's use of what its creator, Burt Rutan, soothingly calls «feathering,» an ingenious wing - raising aerodynamic maneuver that softens its potentially violent reentry into the atmosphere.

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.

The Taepodong - 2 failed during a 2006 test flight, its only known liftoff.

Sandia National Laboratories has successfully demonstrated a new, more environmentally friendly method to test a rocket part to ensure its avionics can withstand the shock from stage separation during flight.

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

The most promising developments of VR - Hyperspace are being integrated into the cabin of a motion simulator to put the new technologies to the test in a small space and even under extreme flight conditions, such as during turbulence.

The Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics tests scientific outcomes on self and space perception during in - flight motions,.

During that flight, a 30 - story balloon lifted an engineering test unit of the HyperSpectral Imager for Climate Science (HySICS) to an altitude of nearly 122,000 feet, far above the majority of Earth's atmosphere.

Mastracchio and Flight Engineer Steve Swanson installed a new circuit board inside a spare multiplexer - demultiplexer (MDM) that they will carry with them outside the station to replace the backup MDM that failed during routine testing April 11.

In 2005 its Zephyr high - altitude, solar - powered vehicle stayed aloft continuously for 54 hours during a test flight.

During these test flights, which ranged from 15 - minute jaunts to reconnaissance journeys lasting nearly three hours, the crew took note of the drones» successes and limitations, Unvala says.

The spacewalk had been scheduled to test techniques for a far more difficult service call: repairing the Hubble Space Telescope during a shuttle flight in December.

The Coast Guard tested the drones over the course of 24 flights lasting a total of 12 hours during the Polar Star's monthlong stay in Antarctica, which ended February 8.

In order to test their hypothesis, the scientists first developed a small wind tunnel which they used to determine the energy loss of moths during the flight.

Air New Zealand said yesterday that using a 50 percent blend of biofuel with traditional jet A-1 fuel can improve fuel efficiency by more than 1 percent, according to data collected during the December 2008 test flight.

Flight - test data gleaned during a Red Dragon mission would be available to NASA at a fraction of the cost and about a decade sooner than NASA could do it, Philip McAlister, director of NASA's Commercial Spaceflight Development Division in Washington, D.C., told a colloquium last week.

During tunnel tests, the craft remains stationary while air is driven past it at incredibly high speeds (up to Mach 10), allowing researchers to understand the forces that will act on it in flight.

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.

IceBridge will also deploy three other experimental instruments that will be tested during the research flights.

SpaceShipTwo, which is modelled on the X-Prize-winning SpaceShipOne, will launch into space for the first time during test flights in 2011.

The heavy - lift launch vehicle is currently under development and on schedule for its first flight in 2017, called Exploration Mission - 1, or EM - 1, which will also carry the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, or MPCV, during its second unmanned test flight.

Four astronauts training for test flights with NASA's Commercial Crew program joined the festivities at Space Launch Complex 41 Thursday morning as one of the highest steel beams was placed on the Crew Access Tower during a «topping off» ceremony with United Launch Alliance,

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.

Several image artifacts have proven more complex than when observed during ground testing, as a result of their interactions with starlight and the greater thermal stability in flight, which causes the temperature - dependent artifact variations to be on the timescales of transits.

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.

Discovery is slated to again visit the ISS during STS - 121, a second test flight scheduled to visit the station no earlier than May 2006.

The RS - 25 engine E2063 test - fired during last week's review is planned for use on the second flight of NASA's new super-heavy-lift rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), which will be Exploration Mission - 2 (EM - 2).

This technical memo documents the alignment calibration, spreadsheet model modifactions and the update of aperture tables using results from in - flight NICMOS alignment tests performed during the Second Servicing Mission Orbital Verification Phase.

The regime covered up the suicide, announced the cause of Udet's death in a crash during a test flight and staged a pompous State funeral.

FAA technical experts logged 200,000 hours of work during the 787 type certification and flew on numerous test flights.

The plane proved to be exceptionally heavy, requiring multiple take - off attempts to get off the ground during test flights and doing poorly in bad weather.

Among the many great ideas and anecdotes conveyed in the book Quantitative Value, one is about the crash of the B - 17 Flying Fortress during a test flight at Wright Air Field in Dayton, Ohio.

The company just completed its first powered test flight since then this week, according to CNBC, although during that test company head Sir Richard Branson promised that Virgin was «just months away» from sending people into space.

He served in the United States Air Force during World War II before being injured during test flight maneuvers.

Francis served in the United States Air Force during World War II before being injured during test flight maneuvers.

Born on June 25, 1923 in San Mateo, CA, he briefly served in the US Air Force during World War II but was injured during a test flight.

Aircraft can be (and are) extensively real - world flight tested during development, after much testing of component materials and parts.