Sentences with phrase «first flight test»

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

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

A delay of the CSeries delivery was widely anticipated due to the small number of test flights since Sept. 16, when the CS100 flew for the first time after years of preparatory work.

Airbus is developing a self - flying, electric, vertical - take off and landing, or VTOL, aircraft, called Vahana, which it said took its first test flight last month.

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Virgin Galactic is «back on track» after completing its first rocket - powered test flight since a fatal crash in late 2014.

The spaceflight company's VSS Unity vehicle on Thursday successfully completed its first powered test flight, Virgin Galactic tweeted.

For example, Musk previously said he planned to launch the «silliest thing we can imagine» on Falcon Heavy's first test flight.

But by mid-2015, delays caused by failures with Falcon 9 test flights caused the first launch to be pushed to late 2016.

Richard Branson's space company on Thursday completed its first rocket - powered test flight since 2014.

The latest vehicle for China's aviation dream, the Comac C919, has just completed its first test flight after Beijing decided to take a different path: buying parts from European and US aviation companies rather than stealing their technology.

The first launch of the Falcon Heavy will be a test flight, and SpaceX is notorious for offbeat payloads on its vessels» maiden voyages.

This isn't the first time an aircraft manufacturer has gotten creative on a test flight.

Although both product lines are in the late stages of their development (Bombardier obtained the permit for the Learjet 85's first test flight in February), they both follow the CSeries jet in the company's release queue.

SpaceX, along with Boeing (ba), also has a contract with NASA to fly astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the «Commercial Crew» program, with the first crucial test flight slated for the second quarter.

NASA is prepping its first - ever Orion space exploration capsule for a test flight in December.

SpaceX had hoped to make its first test flight in 2013, but several delays and setbacks pushed back its launch.

The Falcon Heavy has been in the works for years and was expected to make its first test flight in 2013.

In this case, SpaceX is planning to send the tourists to space in a Dragon 2 spacecraft currently under development, with its first uncrewed test flight planned for this summer, and its first flight to the International Space Station planned for late this year.

And although it was expected to make its first test flight in 2013, a host of delays and setbacks forced SpaceX to push back its launch date.

Falcon Heavy is due to launch its first test flight this summer and, once successful, will be the most powerful vehicle to reach orbit after the Saturn V Moon rocket.

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

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Redknapp has been praised for the wealth of depth at the club in the past, with the bench so often filled with faces which would normally be entitled to a first team berth in any top - flight team, however, Wednesday will put their squad capabilities to the test and really stretch their resources to the limit.

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.

Get ready for your first real - life rocket test flight.

Speaking of wind: The windier it gets the harder it is to pilot a drone so be patient at first and take your drone for it's first test flight on a day with calm weather.

For this first flight, astronauts will just test that the technology works in microgravity by analysing the genomes of bacteria, viruses and mice.

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).

Last December, the company made its first orbital test flight with its Dragon capsule, which launched atop SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.

The firm hopes to send the Taurus 2 on its first test flight this December, SpaceNews reported recently.

At the same time, NASA is gearing up for the first test flight of the Space Launch System in 2017.

«The LDSD test flight is an important first step.»

And based on the timeline for building SLS and Orion, a 2021 Mars mission would be the first crewed flight for both vehicles, which would mean skipping a piloted test flight closer to home.

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.

This mission was the fourth cargo flight to the station by a Dragon spacecraft, counting the first test flight in May 2012.

«If New Shepard had been a traditional expendable vehicle, this would have been a flawless first test flight,» wrote Bezos.

Conceived in 2005, the Orion capsule is now set to make its first test flight, which is scheduled for December.

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.

This first - of - its - kind test flight was part of an ongoing Air Force effort to prove that planes perform just as well with biofuel in the tank.

First tested in 2011 and then again in 2012, the most recent test flight occurred from Fort Sumner, N.M., in September 2013.

Enjoying his first space flight, European Space Agency astronaut Mogensen tested SkinSuit over two days as part of an Operational and Technical Evaluation.

Dutch airline KLM has completed a fifth jet biofuel test flight — and the first with passengers other than flight crew.

For the moment, however, the Stardust team is happy to have negotiated the first in - flight mechanical test of the collector arm.

By the summer of 2009, when Boeing expects its first new 787 Dreamliner to be delivered to Japan, engineers will be banking on a number of engine safety tests to assure a future filled with uneventful flights.

The researchers released each bat in a flight cage and doled out flowers one by one to the bats, working until 3 or 4 a.m. First, they'd place a male flower in a test tube vase on a table.

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.

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.