Sentences with phrase «first supersonic»

VSS Unity completed her first supersonic, rocket - powered flight this morning in Mojave, California.

Unlike the last time in 2014, however, the test was a success and the VSS Unity managed to complete it first supersonic flight.

Jason RhianApril 5th The SpaceShip Company, using its VSS Unity spacecraft, successfully completed the vehicle's first supersonic, rocket - powered test flight on Thursday, April 5.

On October 4, 2017, NASA completed the first supersonic parachute test in preparation for the space agency's Mars 2020 rover mission.

Virgin Galactic's SS2 on its first supersonic flight (Photo: MarsScientific.com and Clay Center Observatory)

VSS Unity completed her first supersonic, rocket - powered flight this morning in Mojave, California.

Not exact matches

With this new capital, we are closer than ever to the first flight of our XB - 1 Supersonic Demonstrator in about a year.»

That meant the first generation of SSTs were banned from flying at supersonic speed over land, which greatly reduced the appeal of supersonic aircraft.

This new contract is a separate venture from Lockheed Martin's work with Aerion Corp. to develop a supersonic business jet, the AS2, which has its first flight planned for 2023.

The first space station China ever launched is about to return to Earth as a mess of ultra-hot, supersonic space junk.

However, plans for building the first section of Hyperloop are alive and well for the supersonic train that can carry passengers at speeds up to 800 miles per hour.

«At first glance the season five Formula E car looked to our design team like an EV - powered supersonic bird in flight.

A daredevil who parachutes from skyscrapers will try to smash the nearly 50 - year - old record for the highest ever jump, becoming the first person to go supersonic in freefall

At 27 kilometres, he would go supersonic: the first man to exceed the speed of sound with nothing more than gravity as a power source.

In September, ThunderFish Alpha got its first hit, locating the first and shortly after even a second model of the Arrow jet — a huge success, since people have been looking for wreckage of the supersonic aircraft for 50 years.

By the time she retired, in 2007, she had authored more than 50 papers on supersonic boom and aircraft design, and reached the senior executive level at NASA — the first African American to do so.

Other historical gems in the aviation hangar include a 1976 Concorde supersonic airliner donated by Air France after its last flight on June 12, 2003; a 1967 Lockheed SR - 71A Blackbird reconnaissance jet capable of Mach 3.3; and a 1938 Boeing 307 Stratoliner, the first passenger plane with a pressurized cabin.

This discovery refutes existing theories, indicating that ultraviolet radiation from the star would destroy molecular gas and dust, and bringing the first direct detection of ionized gas wind along with a supersonic jet and an accretion disk.

«The first thing we detected is a supersonic stream emerging from the star forming inside the ionized gas region.

The first flight of an advanced supersonic parachute system for Mars 2020 NASA's next Mars rover.

the first aid guy FLEW DOWN the mountain at supersonic speed!

Spare parts management: software for the creation of spare parts catalogue, sales catalogue, electronic parts catalogs and spare parts, consultation over 20 facts about Oasis» Supersonic 20 years after its first release.

According to the above launch trailer, 505 Games and Supersonic Software's Wrecked: Revenge Revisited is all about finishing first.

The Boeing 2707 SST still managed to leave a legacy — its supercritical airfoil is now a standard feature on all jet aircraft, and the former Seattle SuperSonics basketball team was named thusly after the Seattle - based company first won a government contract to build the plane at Boeing's factory there.

A wise, heavily - bearded Greek man once said, «The beginning is the most important part of the work,» which is why the team at Psyonix is looking back to 2008 and on their very first football - game - without - feet, Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket - Powered Battle - Cars.

Developer Psyonix first launched the car - football craze back in 2008, with the release of — deep breath — Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket - Powered Battle - Cars.

This Thursday night, January 5th, the Spoke Art Gallery in San Francisco will be hosting The First Annual Supersonic Electronic Invitational.

Meanwhile, another company trying to make space tourism a thing, Virgin Galactic, recently completed the first «supersonic, rocket - powered flight» of its Unity spacecraft.

Virgin Galactic's new spaceship climbed at supersonic speed over California's Mojave Desert on Thursday in the company's first powered flight since the fatal crash of its original rocketship in 2014.

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