Sentences with phrase «test flight dates»

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And although it was expected to make its first test flight in 2013, a host of delays and setbacks forced SpaceX to push back its launch date.

Some of those payloads, presumably, would launch on NASA's in - development mega-rocket, the Space Launch System (SLS), which is slated for its first test flight in 2019 or 2020 and has to date consumed more than $ 18 billion of taxpayer funds.

This flight test was THAAD's seventh intercept to date and proved the system's ability to intercept a unitary target in the low endo - atmosphere.

The new schedule, released yesterday, shows the same dates for Boeing's tests, but the SpaceX flights are delayed.

In advance of a congressional hearing next week on the status of the commercial crew program, NASA's Commercial Crew Program (CCP) has released new dates for when Boeing and SpaceX will conduct flight tests of their CST - 100 Starliner and Crew Dragon spacecraft.

Previously, the aerospace company was targeting a mid-2017 launch date for this important test flight.

GAO cites the CCP program manager as explaining that its analysis is based not only on statements from the companies, but takes into account that the companies «are aggressive and use their schedule dates to motivate their teams» and «assume an efficiency factor in getting to the crewed flight test that NASA does not factor into its analysis.»

Virgin Galactic's SpaceShip Two — pictured here — recently conducted its third successful flight test in a row, reaching its highest altitude to date of 71,000 ft. Image Credit: Virgin Galactic

Title: Elite: Dangerous Version Tested: Xbox One Available On: Xbox One, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS Developer: Frontier Developments Publisher: Frontier Developments Genre: Space Flight Sim Official Site: https://www.elitedangerous.com/ Release Date: Xbox One — October 6, 2015 Where to Buy: Xbox Live, Steam Freedom.

We've just heard via Green Car Congress that Air New Zealand, in conjunction with Boeing and UOP, have just set a date for their first test - flight running on 50 % biofuel produced from non-food sources.

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 aircraft is approximately 70 % complete, and the completion date is approximately 6 - 12 months, at which point it will start the ground run tests before test flights.

Boeing's Commercial Crew flight test dates to ISS are finally in, so here's how both schedules play out,