Sentences with phrase «test flight scheduled»

Discovery is slated to again visit the ISS during STS - 121, a second test flight scheduled to visit the station no earlier than May 2006.

Not exact matches

Assuming that all crewed commercial test flights proceed according to schedule, this could be seen as a valuable foundational period for a fledgling industry.

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).

Conceived in 2005, the Orion capsule is now set to make its first test flight, which is scheduled for December.

The spacewalk had been scheduled to test techniques for a far more difficult service call: repairing the Hubble Space Telescope during a shuttle flight in December.

A small test version has already flown successfully, with the full - sized drone scheduled to make its debut flight next year.

These so - called Red Dragon missions would adapt the same crewed capsule that SpaceX is developing to help NASA send astronauts to the International Space Station, and place it on top of a Falcon Heavy rocket — whose maiden test flight is scheduled for 2017.

In that Space News interview, Ferguson said that the Starliner testing schedule includes a pad abort test at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico in the second quarter of 2018, this would be followed by an uncrewed orbital test flight, which is currently slated to take place in the third quarter of 2018.

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

The CCP program periodically releases the most recent schedule for test flights.

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.

The heavy - lift launch vehicle is currently under development and on schedule for its first flight in 2017, called Exploration Mission - 1, or EM - 1, which will also carry the Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, or MPCV, during its second unmanned test flight.

NASA's next - generation human - rated spacecraft for missions beyond low - Earth orbit, Orion, is scheduled to make its inaugural test flight in September of this year onboard a Delta IV Heavy rocket.

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.»

On November 8, 2017, NASA released an update following a schedule review of Exploration Mission - 1 (EM - 1), the first uncrewed flight test of the Space Launch System (SLS) and Orion spacecraft to the Moon.

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.

The Orion spacecraft at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida has undergone extensive testing to prepare it for its first flight, currently scheduled to -LSB-...]

In the early days of flight, airmail pilots conducted dry runs or «pathfinder» flights to test the flying schedule, survey landing strips and facilities at intermediate airfields, and acquaint themselves with the full length of the route.

The test flight he announced recently is still scheduled for next month.

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

But the Commercial Crew program has suffered numerous setbacks, and now, both companies are scheduled to do their first crewed flight tests later this year.

Oversight in troubleshooting defects, diagnosing malfunctions, and determining extent of maintenance and / or repairs required to train and lead other mechanics in effective use of standard and specialized tools and test equipment, techniques, materials, measuring devices, precision instruments and safety devices Key Highlights: • Instrumental in rebuilding of an F / A -18 C following 18 months of non-mission capable status in which 150 maintenance discrepancies were discovered and corrected and all flight control systems were repaired two weeks ahead of schedule.

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