Sentences with phrase «second test flight»

Artist Statement «The first planned flight of the Space Launch System and second test flight for the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle is planned for September 2018.

Discovery is slated to again visit the ISS during STS - 121, a second test flight scheduled to visit the station no earlier than May 2006.

«Today the prototype Airlander 10 undertook its second test flight and flew for 100 minutes, completing all the planned tasks before returning to Cardington to land.

The world's largest aircraft, the Airlander 10 airship, has crashed and suffered damage on its second test flight on Wednesday.

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SpaceX, along with Boeing (ba), also has a contract with NASA to fly astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the «Commercial Crew» program, with the first crucial test flight slated for the second quarter.

Appearing nearly unscathed after exposure to reentry temperatures that are often less kind to aluminum, SpaceX's second flight - test of titanium grid fins has been a resounding success.

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

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.

Using high - speed cameras focused on bats trained to obtain nectar from artificial «test tube» flowers containing honey water in the lab, the researchers» video captured bats hovering in short flights (rarely lasting a second) over the feeders.

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.

A three minute, 15 - second test the day before was the world's first flight entirely fueled by cooking oil.

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.

The engineering test article for Sierra Nevada Corporation's (SNC) Dream Chaser «spaceplane» flew its long - awaited second free flight test this weekend (Nov 11, 2017) over NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, located at Edwards Air -LSflight test this weekend (Nov 11, 2017) over NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center, located at Edwards Air -LSFlight Research Center, located at Edwards Air -LSB-...]

The heavy - lift launch vehicle is currently under development and on schedule for its first flight in 2017, called Exploration Mission - 1, or EM - 1, which will also carry the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, or MPCV, during its second unmanned test flight.

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).

This technical memo documents the alignment calibration, spreadsheet model modifactions and the update of aperture tables using results from in - flight NICMOS alignment tests performed during the Second Servicing Mission Orbital Verification Phase.

In a second tweet, he said the payload for the test flight would be his own personal first - generation Tesla Roadster.

In touting the test flight, JAL CEO Haruka Nishimatsu said, «Our participation in the search for a viable second generation biofuel is a clear signal to everyone of our strong commitment to increasing the environmental sustainability of the JAL Group and the airline industry.»

Airbus said the aircraft completed a second flight test the next day.

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