«Through Virgin Galactic's manufacturing arm, The Spaceship Company, we will provide engineering and manufacturing services, along with
flight test support and operations as part of our shared ambitions.»
Not exact matches
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.
But in exchange for technical
support, NASA will get access to
flight -
test data that could help the agency increase the amount of weight it can safely carry to Mars's surface, Reuter says.
A 30 - year veteran at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Mr. Hoffman has
supported a number of major
flight projects, including working on software for the Voyager spacecraft's encounter with Neptune,
testing computer hardware for the Cassini mission to Saturn, participating in the STARDUST mission to the WILD - 2 comet as a member of the project systems engineering team, contributing to the Mars rovers (Spirit and Opportunity) as Avionics Systems Manager and serving as Deputy Project Manager for the GRAIL mission to the Moon.
Set up and operated ground
support and
test equipment to perform functional
flight tests of electronic systems resulting in mission accomplishment.
Utilized automated real - time data acquisition systems to
support Army
flight testing to isolate and resolve mission - critical problems relating to data acquisition and processing
Accomplished and dynamic professional, with strong working knowledge of private sector aerospace and extensive experience with NASA
flight hardware design and build process, including
testing, certification and
supporting documentations.