Sentences with phrase «suborbital flight tests»

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Private spaceflight company Blue Origin is eyeing crewed test flights of its reusable suborbital space vehicle starting next year.

The New Shepard suborbital rocket ship has already flown to space and back five times as part of the test flights, and it was a huge success.

For years Chakrabarti and his colleagues have been pursuing a middle way between the laboratory and orbit, using NASA funding to conduct low - cost test flights of these advanced optics technologies with small suborbital rockets and high - altitude balloons that reach the edge of outer space.

-- The Ares 1 - X suborbital test flight cost about the same as the entire COTS program

Billionaire entrepreneur Jeff Bezos and his Kent, Wash. - based company Blue Origin have been making progress at a steady rate the last few years, developing and testing a fully reusable, suborbital New Shepherd flight system and making plans to resurrect dormant Cape -LSB-...]

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.