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Virgin Galactic has conducted the first powered test flight of its new space tourism rocket.

Virgin Galactic Just Completed Its First Powered Test Flight Since Deadly 2014 Crash By Jamie Ducharme

Image from Airplane-Pictures.net Date Set for Jatropha - Powered Test Flight The announcement that Air New Zealand had set an ambitious sustainable biofuels goal for 2013 created a lot of buzz back in September.

The company just completed its first powered test flight since then this week, according to CNBC, although during that test company head Sir Richard Branson promised that Virgin was «just months away» from sending people into space.

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.

With a rocket - powered test flight, the billionaire's space transportation company moves closer to its goal of shuttling tourists into space by 2014.

Richard Branson's space company on Thursday completed its first rocket - powered test flight since 2014.

The spaceflight company's VSS Unity vehicle on Thursday successfully completed its first powered test flight, Virgin Galactic tweeted.

Virgin Galactic is «back on track» after completing its first rocket - powered test flight since a fatal crash in late 2014.

Virgin Galactic had paused its rocket - powered test flights since the October 2014 crash that killed one of its pilots.

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Facebook's solar - powered drone, which weighs 880 pounds, is now ready for in - flight testing, the company said.

The XPS 13's superior battery life (surpassing 16 hours in some tests) will ensure you'll get plenty of work done even on international flights without power plugs.

Zuckerberg inspecting Aquila, a solar - powered, fixed - wing drone, before a test flight in Arizona in July.

Continental jet 516 — a two - engine Boeing 737 - 800 — completed a two hour test flight out of Houston today with one engine powered by a 50 - 50 blend of regular petroleum - based jet fuel and a synthetic alternative made from Jatropha and algae.

The Earth Day test flight of a partially biofuel - powered F / A -18 Green Hornet was another example of Navy Secretary Ray Mabus's commitment to decreasing the military's consumption of foreign fossil fuels.

The clear, sunny skies that make the Mojave desert ideal for test flights also make it a center for solar power research.

The company's latest test flight was much more successful, powering to Mach 3 speeds and reaching a height of 93.6 kilometres.

In 2005 its Zephyr high - altitude, solar - powered vehicle stayed aloft continuously for 54 hours during a test flight.

The importance of the technology is already being seen at a number of large companies such as GE who have made enormous strides in industrial 3D printing by opening a facility to produce the 3D printed fuel nozzles for its advanced LEAP jet engines, and Rolls - Royce announcing they will flight - test what it claims to be the largest 3D printed aerospace component to ever power an aircraft.

In making Power Passage (2004 — 07), a two - channel video shown at the entrance of the gallery, Park was inspired by the actual launching of the ASTP (Apollo - Soyuz Test Project), the first joint US - Soviet space flight that took place in 1975.

Japan Prepares to Finally Join Electric Flight Ranks Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency or JAXA is preparing to make the first manned test flights of an all - electric, battery - powered airplane starting in February.

Virgin Atlantic — along with General Electric and Boeing — is already planning a test commercial flight early next year that will have one engine out of four powered partially or entirely by biofuel.

This was the first powered test of the Unity since the SpaceShipTwo Enterprise broke up during a test flight in late 2014.

The successful test is the first rocket - powered flight since the deadly crash of the original ship in 2014

They will be electric or hydrogen powered and manufacturers have the first test flights between March and May 2018.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced on Thursday (July 21) that it had successfully tested a solar - powered drone during a 96 minutes flight in Yuma, Arizona on June 28.

Performed inspection, testing, troubleshooting, repair, overhaul, modification, calibration, installation, and / or alignment of various types of complex aircraft electronic and electro - mechanical equipment which includes but is not limited to generators, motors, landing gear, flight control and lighting, power plant, valves, hydraulics, fuel, and ignition systems.