Sentences with phrase «reusable space technology»

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The autonomous space craft, blandly called the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle, is intended to «demonstrate technologies for a reliable, reusable, unmanned space - test platform.»

Since 2007, a multi-institutional team working at the Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity in Bremen, Germany, has dropped its reusable cold atom experiments down a 146 - meter tower into a bed of polystyrene pellets.

That spacecraft, like the new orbital launch vehicle, will feature a reusable rocket booster capable of vertical landings — a technology that space industry leaders have said can dramatically reduce the cost of commercial spaceflight.

In 1993, Kelly quit his job, formed Kelly Space and Technology in San Bernardino, California, and promptly designed a three - stage reusable launch vehicle that is unique in the annals of spaceflight.