Sentences with phrase «test flights into»

While human manipulations did sometimes seem to weaken hurricanes, test flights into the storms never provided proof.

«Turning a test flight into more of an operational mission needs careful review by the technical community,» said William Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for human exploration and operations, said in a statement.

Not exact matches

During its flight test, the KN - 18 missile demonstrated a range of around 280 miles before it fell into the Sea of Japan.

With a rocket - powered test flight, the billionaire's space transportation company moves closer to its goal of shuttling tourists into space by 2014.

The test flight of SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched a Tesla Roadster as its payload into an elliptic Mars orbit.

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

The idea was to put a twist on the practice of sending dummy payloads into space during flight tests.

The first hypersonic flight test took place in March 2010, with the X-51 reported to have travelled at Mach - 5 but crashing into the Pacific Ocean when its fuel supply was exhausted.

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

During the past year and a half, Scaled Composites has completed successful test flights involving both the mother - ship drop and SS2's use of what its creator, Burt Rutan, soothingly calls «feathering,» an ingenious wing - raising aerodynamic maneuver that softens its potentially violent reentry into the atmosphere.

In one lab test, a vertical metal plate gave a bat the illusion of a clear flight path, causing it to crash into the barrier.

A short video was created to show the transport of the flight microshutter device into a cleanroom at NASA Goddard on May 15, 2014, where it will undergo various tests for several months to verify its integrity and operation.

When the Ariane space rocket lifts off, it is fuelled not just by hydrocarbons and liquid oxygen but by the brainpower that goes into numerous calculations, computer simulations, and test flights.

The most promising developments of VR - Hyperspace are being integrated into the cabin of a motion simulator to put the new technologies to the test in a small space and even under extreme flight conditions, such as during turbulence.

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.

The rocket's test flight will only explore part of its capabilities, but it should be enough to launch the crew capsule into sub-orbital flight, just over 100 kilometres above Earth.

The company expects to perform three more test flights in New Zealand this year before starting to send satellites and other payloads into orbit 500 kilometres above Earth.

SpaceShipTwo, which is modelled on the X-Prize-winning SpaceShipOne, will launch into space for the first time during test flights in 2011.

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.»

The Planetary Society has just announced that LightSail will be launched into orbit on its first test flight in May.

My friend bought an Evolve Bamboo electric skateboard so we tried that out and I get my new DJI Mavic Pro up into the air for some test flights over Malta.

While testing the Nook Simple Touch With GlowLight, I found that the GlowLight transformed spots I formerly considered e-reader dead zones into bona fide reading spaces, whether I was in bed reading in the dark, or sitting on a red - eye flight looking to unwind with a book without disturbing my seatmates with the too - bright overhead light.

The company just completed its first powered test flight since then this week, according to CNBC, although during that test company head Sir Richard Branson promised that Virgin was «just months away» from sending people into space.

Because you can log into the free flight alpha module with me, and I'll bust out the ship they wanted to play with, I'll go land on the dock, I'll get out and go, «Go take it for a test flight!

By turning Boeing's flight test into a full mission, NASA hopes to preempt any potential gaps in access to the ISS, and an extra astronaut will keep NASA's total crew on board the station about the same.

Earlier this week, Apple announced it was shutting down a legacy version of Test Flight, software that makes it easier to distribute beta versions of iOS apps, and had rolled the service into iTunes Connect.