Sentences with phrase «test flight after»

SpaceX has completed the last crucial step of Falcon Heavyâ $ ™ s inaugural test flight after successfully launching Elon Muskâ $ ™ s Tesla Roadster out of...

The latest vehicle for China's aviation dream, the Comac C919, has just completed its first test flight after Beijing decided to take a different path: buying parts from European and US aviation companies rather than stealing their technology.

Not exact matches

A delay of the CSeries delivery was widely anticipated due to the small number of test flights since Sept. 16, when the CS100 flew for the first time after years of preparatory work.

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

The notoriously secretive Paul Allen had revealed himself as SpaceShipOne's backer after the December 2003 test flight.

A man looks at damage to the Airlander 10 hybrid airship after a test flight at Cardington Airfield in Britain, August 24, 2016.

We're really looking to kick it into an unprecedented flight rate» after testing is complete, Beck told CNBC.

Falcon Heavy is due to launch its first test flight this summer and, once successful, will be the most powerful vehicle to reach orbit after the Saturn V Moon rocket.

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.

After years of delays and roughly $ 1 billion invested, Space Exploration Technology Corp has successfully launched a test flight of its Falcon Heavy rocket.

The partners will carry out further test flights until 4 April, after which an initial evaluation will take place.

After a very long flight (don't ever air travel with your toddler in your third trimester of pregnancy) my day was made a little brighter when upon returning home I found a box filled with sweet, chocolate nut spreads waiting to be taste - tested.

According to him, the new aircraft will soon be inducted into service after assembling and successful test flights.

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

The first tests of the CEV's rocket are scheduled for 2009, with manned flights to low Earth orbit beginning by 2014 (even that hard - charging schedule will leave a gap in America's manned spaceflight program after the planned retirement of the shuttle in 2010).

After VSS Enterprise and VMS Eve test flights are completed, Virgin Galactic will begin commercial operations here at Spaceport America.

And after 11 days of free flight for engineering tests, the Russian ISS Progress 54 cargo ship, now loaded with trash from the station, was commanded to deorbit for its fiery entry into the Earth's atmosphere for disposal.

Because of the difficulty of monitoring engines in operation, most manufacturers test blades either after flight or rely on simulated tests to give them the data on how the various coatings on the blades are performing.

SpaceX, based in Hawthorne, Calif., has a $ 1.6 billion contract with the space agency to fly 12 cargo - delivery missions to the space station after this test flight is complete.

When the mannequin landed in Siberia after one test flight, local people were thoroughly puzzled, according to an eyewitness account in the auction's catalogue.

«After a few more flight tests — in order to assure everything is working properly — it should be ready for commercial use,» claims co-author Robert Lanza of Advanced Cell Technology Inc. in Worcester, Massachusetts, in a press release.

Glover and other executives said they think the approval process will be smooth because after processing plant oils, «We leave a hydrocarbon that looks exactly like petroleum fuel,» said Jennifer Holmgren, the general manager of renewable energy and chemicals at UOP, the company that derived the plant - oil refining and processing treatment for the Air New Zealand, Continental and Japan Airlines test flights.

Falcon Heavy is due to launch its first test flight this summer and, once successful, will be the most powerful vehicle to reach orbit after the Saturn V Moon rocket.

After two more test flights, NASA landed on the Moon on 20 July 1969, where Neil Armstrong took his famous «giant leap for mankind».

The data collectors compiled and analyzed information on the test subjects» heart and respiration rates, both at rest and after hiking up and down three flights of stairs.

Aircraft can be (and are) extensively real - world flight tested during development, after much testing of component materials and parts.

NASA plans to certify the company's vehicles only after they've done an uncrewed test flight and a crewed test flight, meaning the first astronauts likely won't fly until late next year at the earliest.