Sentences with phrase «uncrewed flight»

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.

Launch company SpaceX may even shoot two space tourists around the moon before NASA's giant rocket, the Space Launch System, makes its first uncrewed flight, in December at the earliest.

NASA is set to send the Orion deep - space capsule on its inaugural uncrewed flight this week.

Not exact matches

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.

A drone that mimics the way a bat changes its wing shape in flight could make small uncrewed vehicles far more agile.

NASA has already commissioned SpaceX of Hawthorne, California, to run cargo flights to the ISS with its Falcon 9 rocket and uncrewed Dragon capsule.

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.

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.

In October 2016, citing development and production concerns, Boeing spokesman William Barksdale stated that the company would delay its pad abort test from October 2017 to January 2018, with the uncrewed test flight moving from December 2017 to June of 2018.

In December 2014, the spacecraft launched atop a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket on an uncrewed test flight to Earth orbit.

As noted on Ars Technica, both Boeing and SpaceX have expressed confidence that uncrewed test flights would begin before the close of this year (2018), according to the Ars Technica report, a U.S. House Subcommittee on Space hearing cast doubt on these assertions.

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

Phase 2, which would begin in 2027, would start with an uncrewed mission to deliver the Deep Space Transport vehicle to cislunar space, followed by a flight to deliver the one - year crew to thefacility.

The rocket would carry crews in the agency's Orion space capsule, which has made one uncrewed test flight.

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.