Sentences with phrase «test flight last»

Elektra One completed its first test flight last year.

Airbus is developing a self - flying, electric, vertical - take off and landing, or VTOL, aircraft, called Vahana, which it said took its first test flight last month.

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

Last year, the GAO report says, vibration testing of the telescope at Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, threw up some unexpected results.

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.

Blue Origin launched a successful test flight of New Shepard last April.

Last December, the company made its first orbital test flight with its Dragon capsule, which launched atop SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket.

Last October, BioJet 1 — a 1968 Czechoslovakian L - 29 fighter jet — reached around 17,000 feet (5,200 meters) on 100 percent biodiesel during a test flight in Reno, Nev..

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.

The maiden voyage of the 11 - ounce laser plane lasted just 15 minutes; moreover, its test flight was conducted indoors to avoid problems created by wind or bad weather.

Solar Impulse HB - SIA takes a test flight over San Francisco before a cross-country trip last summer.

During these test flights, which ranged from 15 - minute jaunts to reconnaissance journeys lasting nearly three hours, the crew took note of the drones» successes and limitations, Unvala says.

The Coast Guard tested the drones over the course of 24 flights lasting a total of 12 hours during the Polar Star's monthlong stay in Antarctica, which ended February 8.

For some of the dogs aboard test flights, his had been the last face they ever saw.

Last month, Sapphire Energy, an algae biofuel company that participated in the Continental test flight, said it would be producing 1 million gallons of diesel and jet fuel a year by 2011 (Greenwire, April 28).

Flight - test data gleaned during a Red Dragon mission would be available to NASA at a fraction of the cost and about a decade sooner than NASA could do it, Philip McAlister, director of NASA's Commercial Spaceflight Development Division in Washington, D.C., told a colloquium last week.

In a final test Farman flew from one end of the field to the other, and skirted along the fortifications at this point in a large circle, covering in all more than 2 kilometers (1 1/4 miles) in a flight which lasted for nearly three minutes.

Last week, the CCP released the most recent schedule showing SpaceX's test flights have slipped a few months, but both companies still are expected to complete their uncrewed and crewed test flights by the end of 2018.

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-...]

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).

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.

StemRad, a developer of revolutionary technology that shields first responders, astronauts and soldiers from harmful radiation exposure, announced today that NASA and the Israel Space Agency have signed an agreement for the launch of StemRad's AstroRad radiation protection vest aboard NASA's EM - 1 mission around the moon, the last test flight before the space agency begins deep space manned missions.

Consider that the Samsung Nexus S was Google's test flight of its Android 2.3 «Gingerbread» OS when it launched last December.

Following a testing phase that began last year onboard some of its Airbus A380 flights, Dubai - based Emirates Airlines is launching in - flight Wi - Fi for passengers aboard 11 of the airline's 19 A380s, via its Internet connectivity provider OnAir.

According to The National, a Dubai card lifestyle manager will arrange anything you need, whether it's last minute tickets to the Oscars or a weekend flight to Germany to test drive a Porsche.

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Unlike the last time in 2014, however, the test was a success and the VSS Unity managed to complete it first supersonic flight.

The Yoga 720 lasted almost 9 hours the Laptop Mag Battery Test, so it will get you through a cross-country flight's worth of media creation.

Last month, aerospace giant Airbus conducted the first successful test flight of its Vahana electric vertical take - off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.