Sentences with phrase «for rocket tests»

In March, the company inked a contract with NASA to use the Stennis Space Center for rocket tests.

Not exact matches

Blue Origin is headed quickly toward commercial operations as the rocket company founded by Jeff Bezos nears the end of testing for several of its major projects.

In March it made industry history by successfully launching and landing a reusable rocket; six months before that, it watched as one of its Falcon 9 rockets exploded during refueling for a so - called test fire.

Only after the Falcon Heavy is rigorously tested and SpaceX manages to deliver on its promises of cheaper space launches, a return to the moon, and a mission to Mars (or fail to, for that matter) will we be able to say for sure which rocket was the true champion of human space exploration.

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

«Mojave can accommodate essentially any aircraft with our long runway, and we have several rocket sites for test programs,» Drees said.

The tests became more frequent, and each successful test brought the people from Rafael closer to their great goal: to provide, for the first time anywhere in the world, a crushing response to the threat of short - range rockets, that had for years left people in Israel's southern and northern border regions helpless.

Scottish secretary Jim Murphy faced calls for his resignation today if he did not manage to guarantee the future of 125 defence jobs at a rocket test range in the Hebrides.

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

For the test flight, it will jettison the capsule 45 seconds after launch, when the rocket has climbed nearly 5000 metres.

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).

SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, headed by PayPal co-founder Elon Musk, has been in the spotlight with recent test flights of its Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon space capsule, which the company hopes to use to run a space taxi service for NASA astronauts to the ISS (New Scientist, 18 December 2010, p 12).

DISCOVER spoke to Burt Rutan about his inspiration for SpaceShipOne, what SpaceShipTwo passengers can expect to get for their money, why the future of spaceflight doesn't belong to NASA — and the aftermath of a recent explosion at one of Rutan's test facilities during a test of rocket motor components that killed three people and severely injured three others.

On 28 November, William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for NASA's human - exploration division, presented plans to test the agency's next generation of heavy - lift rockets with trips to the vicinity of the Moon in 2017 and 2021.

SpaceX has also been testing a reusable booster for its current Falcon 9 rocket, and has made several unsuccessful attempts to land the booster stage on a drone ship this year.

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.

But when Tim Buzza, SpaceX's vice president for test - launch operations, gazes fondly at the little rocket resting in its truck - bed rack at Vandenberg, he's quite certain that if there are any surprises, they will indeed be surprises.

This module has been used on April 23 for tests on board the FOKUS research rocket aiming to demonstrate whether there really are no differences in how clocks run differently under space conditions like Einstein claimed.

There, they will be tested and hopefully reused in NASA's future heavy - lifting rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), which is designed for missions beyond Earth orbit.

In tests, it fired a 105 - kilowatt beam — enough to destroy rockets, mortars and artillery shells — at a stationary target for 5 minutes.

Eventually, NASA will pay for four resupply missions a year — which could come from both SpaceX and Orbital Sciences, based in Dulles, Virginia, which is planning to test its Antares rocket and Cygnus capsule later this year.

Its stated purpose is to test and develop new technologies for spaceflight, such as NASA's Space Launch System heavy - lift rocket, its Orion deep - space crew capsule and an advanced solar - electric propulsion engine suitable for long - haul cargo trips.

At just about 2 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, the Chang» e-5 Test 1 (CE5 - T1) spacecraft lifted off aboard a Long March rocket for an unmanned dash to the moon and back that aims to test technology for a sample return mission planned for 2017 and, a decade from now, possibly landing astronauts on the mTest 1 (CE5 - T1) spacecraft lifted off aboard a Long March rocket for an unmanned dash to the moon and back that aims to test technology for a sample return mission planned for 2017 and, a decade from now, possibly landing astronauts on the mtest technology for a sample return mission planned for 2017 and, a decade from now, possibly landing astronauts on the moon.

And the majority of environmental samples, including rocket fragments, tested positive for sarin or its degradation products.

NASA successfully tested the first deep space RS - 25 rocket engine for 500 seconds March 10, clearing a major milestone toward the next great era of space exploration.

Today, the rocket fired its engines in a test at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, clearing the way for an inaugural launch in the coming weeks.

These so - called Red Dragon missions would adapt the same crewed capsule that SpaceX is developing to help NASA send astronauts to the International Space Station, and place it on top of a Falcon Heavy rocket — whose maiden test flight is scheduled for 2017.

At NASA's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M., a sounding rocket is being readied for flight.

At the moment, 10 engineers are running it through a pre — test - fire check, a job that for most rockets requires a cast of hundreds.

That is the goal at the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing in Florida, where scientists are launching a special rocket that triggers lightning strikes.

NASA engineers demonstrated just that when they used a NASA F / A -18 aircraft recently to simulate a rocket in its early flight phase to test adaptive software for NASA's new rocket the Space Launch System (SLS), the largest, most powerful launch vehicle for deep space missions.

On parabolic flights with zero gravity for 22 seconds and in tests on research rockets with five minutes of zero gravity, Professor Ullrich's team already discovered that cells from the human immune system already respond to the absence of gravity within seconds.

In November and December 2013, the team of engineers, technicians and pilots completed two series of test flights to assess the adaptive augmenting controller software planned for the rocket on a modified NASA F / A -18 at NASA Armstrong.

Last - minute delays for testing are not unusual for rocket launches.

This Tuesday, for example, SpaceX will run a test launch of its Falcon 9 rocket and will attempt to land it on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean, rather than allowing it to splash down into the water as it has on previous tests.

NASA's next - generation human - rated spacecraft for missions beyond low - Earth orbit, Orion, is scheduled to make its inaugural test flight in September of this year onboard a Delta IV Heavy rocket.

He is best known as the founder of Rotary Rocket, which built a landing test simulator for a reusable rocket that flew three successful flights inRocket, which built a landing test simulator for a reusable rocket that flew three successful flights inrocket that flew three successful flights in 1999.

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).

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Engineers have successfully hot - fire tested an RS - 25 rocket engine with a large 3 - D printed part for the first time, marking a key step toward reducing costs for future engines that power NASA's new heavy - lift rocket, the Space Launch System.

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A Red Car for the Red Planet Test flights of new rockets usually contain mass simulators in the form of concrete or steel blocks.

Our test vehicle's 380 - horsepower supercharged V6 delivered rocket - like acceleration and an abundance of torque for passing and merging.

When a programmer added a ball for a physics test, the team decided to re-imagine the game as the first iteration of Rocket League.

Fans of that kind of thing need not despair, for the ironic silence will be lifted by gunfire and other M - rated noises tomorrow, for tomorrow Bethesda and id will be letting a select few in to shoot plasma rifles and rocket launchers at one another in a Closed Alpha test designed to stress - test Doom's infrastructure of dedicated servers.

In 1995, he collaborated with the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum in Price, Utah, to make replicas of their entire collection of dinosaur track casts, and exhibited these in New York and throughout Europe; in 1997 he collaborated with the International Center for Lightning Research and Testing in Starke, Florida, to trigger lightning with rockets, and worked with a local souvenir manufacturer to create over 10,000 replicas of a fulgurite created by the lightning strike; in 2000 he collaborated with the Pioneers Museum in the desert community of Imperial Valley, California, to reproduce souvenir copies and large models of their local mountain, Mount Signal, and the unique «Sand Spike» sand concretions found at its base; and in 2003, he created 120 topographical models of the states of Missouri and Kansas, which he donated and delivered himself to 120 small historical society museums in both states.

Virgin Galactic took to the skies today for the first test of its rocket - powered spacecraft in over three years.

With a swelling mountain of smoke a chorus of machine gun pops, SpaceX successfully test fired its Falcon Heavy Rocket in late January 2018, setting the stage for a proper launch of what will be «the most powerful operational rocket in the world» in the company's own Rocket in late January 2018, setting the stage for a proper launch of what will be «the most powerful operational rocket in the world» in the company's own rocket in the world» in the company's own words.

One of the coolest things to happen in space and automotive news in a long time was the successful launch of Elon Musk's personal Tesla Roadster atop a Falcon Heavy rocket during the first test flight for the new rocket.

Designing and manufacturing a static test system for developing bi-propellant rocket propulsion systems