Sentences with phrase «orbital test flight»
That includes the cost of developing two new launch vehicles from scratch (Falcon 1 and Falcon 9), developing the Dragon spacecraft, conducting seven launches, including an orbital test flight of Dragon, and building out the infrastructure for two separate launch sites.
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In that Space News interview, Ferguson said that the Starliner testing schedule includes a pad abort test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico in the second quarter of 2018, this would be followed by an uncrewed orbital test flight, which is currently slated to take place in the third quarter of 2018.
Last December, the company made its first orbital test flight with its Dragon capsule, which launched atop SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.
The California - based company SpaceX is set to launch its Dragon capsule toward the station on Nov. 30 on its second and final orbital test flight, NASA officials announced last week.
Not exact matches
Two commercial suborbital launches scheduled for late last week, one a test flight of an orbital launch vehicle and the other of a suborbital research vehicle, have been postponed.