Sentences with phrase «test flight planned»

In this case, SpaceX is planning to send the tourists to space in a Dragon 2 spacecraft currently under development, with its first uncrewed test flight planned for this summer, and its first flight to the International Space Station planned for late this year.

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For example, Musk previously said he planned to launch the «silliest thing we can imagine» on Falcon Heavy's first test flight.

In April 2003, Rutan went public with his plans and started flight - testing the White Knight, the big, spindly aircraft that would carry SpaceShipOne under its belly to 46,000 feet and loose it.

Lockheed Martin Corp's new F - 35 fighter jet has completed over a third of its planned flight tests, but it is still facing problems with the helmet needed to fly the plane, software development and weapons integration, according to a report by the Pentagon's chief weapons tester.

«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.

Further testing with flights is planned over a one - month period in summer 2017.

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).

Virgin Atlantic airline announced that early this year it will conduct the first flight test of a biodiesel — petroleum diesel blend in one of the four engines of a 747 aircraft; Air New Zealand is planning a similar test flight on a Rolls Royce engine in one of its 747s later in the year.

In November and December 2013, the team of engineers, technicians and pilots completed two series of test flights to assess the adaptive augmenting controller software planned for the rocket on a modified NASA F / A -18 at NASA Armstrong.

NASA plans to carry out the first uncrewed Orion test flight in 2018, followed by a crewed test - flight in 2021.

SpaceX and Boeing plan to test fly their capsules without crew in 2016 and 2017, respectively, before crewed test flights in 2017.

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).

The latter layout, a two - class 615 - seat superjumbo, is now undergoing final flight testing by Airbus with planned service entry in December.

KLM will be using this procedure on three flights a day, namely to Berlin, Budapest, and Helsinki, and plans to expand its test of the new process to other European and long - haul flights in 2014.

According to KUOW (Seattle's NPR station), Alaska Airlines is planning on testing out a preferred seating program on some flights.

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.

The flights tests, planned for Spain, will be the first demonstration of manned flight using fuel cells.

Virgin Atlantic — along with General Electric and Boeing — is already planning a test commercial flight early next year that will have one engine out of four powered partially or entirely by biofuel.

With New Zealand's government declaring itself to actively become the world's first carbon neutral nation with sustainability underpinning the «four pillars of the economy, society, the environment, and nationhood,» Air New Zealand is planning to launch the first test of a commercial 747 airliner flying partially on biofuels, as part of a deal between the airline, engine maker Rolls - Royce and aircraft manufacturer Boeing to study greener flying, with the first flight slated to take off late 2008 or early 2009 (without passengers).

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Many may uttered a cynical «yeah, right» when Jeff Bezos unveiled his plan for a delivery drone in 2013, but subsequent test flights of the Prime Air machine, heavy investment in drone - focused R&D centers, partnerships with NASA and others to build an air traffic control system for drones, and even appearances by Amazon executives in front of congressional committees show that the company isn't just serious about flying books and other small items to customers, but utterly determined to see the plan through.

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.

In - depth knowledge of maintenance planning, flight test engineering and helicopter simulation

I have hands on experience in planning test phase flight, overseeing the buildup and configuration of air craft systems and I wish to utilize my skills for the betterment of the organization.

Designed a dynamic simulation test matrix and planned flight profiles to predict next generation infrared countermeasure system effectiveness for fix - wing aircraft.

In - depth knowledge of flight test process like planning, documenting, and executing the flight test program plan

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