Sentences with phrase «latest uncrewed»
The cargo is being carried by the latest uncrewed spacecraft to vie for a place in the emerging market to supply the ISS.
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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.
After an uncrewed test mission to the ISS later this year, SpaceX and NASA will send a crew aboard Dragon 2 to the ISS sometime in mid-2018.
While the current version of ALPHA is geared towards a simulated environment, Ernest says there is no technological obstacle to a later version piloting an uncrewed aircraft or co-piloting a crewed one.
NASA plans to certify the company's vehicles only after they've done an uncrewed test flight and a crewed test flight, meaning the first astronauts likely won't fly until late next year at the earliest.