Designed to accommodate up to seven people, Starliner will make its debut test flight in June, with a crewed test flight in August.
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Branson explained that, after Unity's successful and most ambitious test flight to date, the spacecraft would undergo extensive checks before its next test flight.
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Startup Passenger Drone recently showed off footage from its first manned test flight, while Dubai's autonomous taxi service launched a maiden test flight last month.
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"It's a test flight, but it's more than a test flight," Bill Gerstenmaier, the associate administrator for NASA's human spaceflight program, said during a press conference.
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COMAC Vice President Shi Jianzhong said last month that the plane was expected to make its third test flight within two weeks of its second test flight on Sept.
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As for Boeing, the company is targeting March 2019 for an uncrewed test flight of its vehicle, the CST-100 Starliner, and a crewed test flight in August 2019.
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The new aircraft, which went from concept to first test flight in 23 years, "behaved as expected" on its first test flight this week, according to the Air Force.
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Magnix shared a short video of the ePlane&aposs test flight and Harbour Air CEO and founder Greg McDougall celebrated the test flight&aposs success in a public statement.
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Both SpaceX and Boeing are slated to do an uncrewed test flight and a crewed test flight before their capsules can be certified to do routine missions to the ISS.
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These safety features will be tested out on the next test flight Bezos claimed that these safety features will be tested out on the next test flight, along with the failed parachutes.
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The airship took its first test flight in 2016, successfully taking off, turning, and landing, but its second test flight wasn't so successful, as the airship crashed into a field, damaging the cockpit.
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The second test flight was better, but far from perfect.
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"It's pretty impressive," Dr. Wright said of the test flight.
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The company has executed one other test flight since then.
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SpaceX's Crew Dragon nailed a crucial test flight in March.
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I would put that ahead of our uncrewed test flight.
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Rosie will be heading there on a test flight Friday.
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The C919 had its first test flight two years ago.
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Details: The plan would require a test flight of the Orion with its European Service Module on NASA's Space Launch System rocket in June 2020, with the first crewed test flight in late 2022.
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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.
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I stand and make my way onto the test-flight platform.
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"Space feels tantalisingly close now," Branson Tweeted after the test flight.
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The plunge brings the spacecraft's first test flight to an end.
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Between the lines: Notably, the test flight was broadcast live online.
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Watch this all-electric 'flying car' take its first test flight.
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That was the final test flight prior to the certification flight.
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Go deeper: Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic conducts historic 2nd test flight
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The third C919 prototype conducted its first test flight in December.
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What do you hope to learn from that first test flight?
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Another great test flight, another step closer to being #NMReady pic.twitter.
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You can watch more of the test flight in Virginia below.
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However, operations will be a little different on this test flight.
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The crew capsule's crushable "ring" after the most recent test flight.
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A single test flight represents a tiny step toward getting there.
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Making test flight history is just the latest of Winiecki's accomplishments.
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Business Insider will be on board, reporting from the test flight.
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Yesterday's test flight wasn't UPS's first foray into unmanned aerial systems.
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NASA still doesn't know if it wants Boeing to perform another test flight of its new passenger spacecraft without people on board — three months after the vehicle's first test flight failed to go according to plan.
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NASA still doesn't know if it wants Boeing to perform another test flight of its new passenger spacecraft without people on board — three months after the vehicle's first test flight failed to go according to plan.
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The test flight with Boeing will be her first trip to space.
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So losing one or two in a less-than-successful test flight?
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Boeing plans to conduct an uncrewed test flight of Starliner on Dec.
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An unmanned test flight of the two components is planned for 2018.
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The cloud seeding drone just had its first test flight in Nevada.
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The SLS still has room for more payloads on its test flight.
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These test flights may actually apply to that test-flight time requirement.
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As always, this is a development test flight and anything can happen.
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Domino's says this test flight was way more than a publicity stunt.
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In the latest test flight, Unity's rocket engine fired for 31 seconds.
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Mitsubishi's first test flight took place last year, three years behind schedule.
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The uncrewed test flight is scheduled for late 2018 or early 2019.
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For the test flight, the rocket will not carry a customer's payload.
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Some federal officials expect the test flight to be conducted in October.
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During Wednesday's test flight, it climbed about 343,000 feet, or 65 miles.
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Boeing expects to conduct its uncrewed test flight of Starliner on Dec.
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Crew Dragon's uncrewed test flight in May went off without a hitch.
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Its suborbital rocket completed its 12th successful test flight on December 0003.
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The crew was conducting a maintenance test flight just after 2 p.m.
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Boeing's uncrewed test flight of its system is expected to launch Dec.
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This is a test flight out of the White Sands Missile Range.
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It was North Korea's longest-ever test flight of a ballistic missile.
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One test flight ended with a crash landing and a broken wing.
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Hadrava with his friend pours petrol into his plane before a test flight.
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The Chinese military in 2014 said it had conducted a hypersonic test flight.
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It was the company's second test flight to reach the edge of space.
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BOEING SAYS IT HAS COMPLETED A "DRY RUN" OF A CERTIFICATION TEST FLIGHT
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Boeing already has funds set aside if NASA does require another test flight.
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"That was the final test flight prior to the certification flight," he said.
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One of them, Blue Origin's test flight, has been pushed back to Friday.
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And SLS will launch Orion on its first crewed test flight in 2013.
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We still have some more tests to go in our test flight program.
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That test flight reached an altitude of 51.4 miles, or nearly 83 kilometers.
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The shortest test flight was five miles and the longest was 22 miles.
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Its first uncrewed test flight on the SLS is slated for late 2018.
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Crashing the crew capsule won't be the only difference during this test flight.
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Boeing expects to have the system ready for a test flight in 2019.
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Dr. Wright agreed that the successful test flight represented a major step forward.
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Overall, this was Blue Origin's ninth test flight of a New Shepherd rocket.
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The first SpaceShipTwo was lost during a fatal test flight in October 2014.
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Early analysis of the test flight indicated that everything went according to plan.
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This was the second test flight for the rocket and capsule this year.
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We have a significant test flight that is going to be in November.
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For the upcoming test flight, the rocket will not carry a customer's payload.
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Before then, Boeing is to fly another test flight, but with astronauts aboard.
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Boeing's new Starliner space capsule had a turbulent first test flight Friday morning.
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The Airlander 10, the world's largest aircraft, completed its first test flight on Wednesday.
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It completed a test flight of its rocket with commercial payloads earlier this month.
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Last week, the fourth prototype of the C919 plane completed its first test flight.
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Musk first targeted November for the test flight, following years of almost-here promises.
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The initial test flight of Aquila began at shortly after 6AM on June 28th.
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After an 24-hour, 22-state test flight, #BOE004 is back on the ground.
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Most of the remaining employees were focused on completing the carrier plane's test flight.
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That said, the test flight deadline has been pushed back quite a few times.
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Ariane 6 is right around the corner with a test flight scheduled for 2020.
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After that first test flight, SLS may not fly again for another five years.
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The first integrated test flight is scheduled for 2018, according to the NASA plan.
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There was already one test flight in May, though the rocket didn't achieve orbit.
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In 2014, an accident during a Virgin Galactic test flight killed its co-pilot.
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The aircraft was engineered so meticulously that before the first test flight, on Feb.
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Virgin Galactic touches the edge of space with Mach 2.9 test flight of SpaceShipTwo
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SpaceX completed a successful test flight of its Starhopper prototype vehicle on Thursday night.
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Virgin Galactic successfully launched its first supersonic test flight on Thursday, CBS News reports.
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The high-tech drone is expected to have its first test flight in 2026.
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The North has never conducted a test flight for such a long-range missile.
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In 2014, an accident during a Virgin Galactic test flight killed a co-pilot.
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In the initial test flight, Choi and Lee sent pizza to Kiernan and Castle.
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The test flight lasted for 53 seconds, reaching a height of just 16 feet.
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Hyundai and Uber have not yet completed a test flight of the new vehicle.
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The launch served as the first unmanned test flight of the Saturn V rocket.
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This is the company&aposs 12th test flight, and it&aposs 11th successful landing.
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NASA astronaut Nicole Mann is training for the Boeing Starliner's first crewed test flight.
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SpaceX successfully completed its uncrewed test flight to the space station earlier in 2019.
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The company said it will conduct its first orbital test flight later this year.
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We have not yet reached the rocket powered phase of the test flight program—first we need to gather test flight data to confirm our analyses and calculations about how VSS Unity will perform in a wide variety of real-world flight conditions.
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Its first test flight with humans aboard has already been delayed once, and the schedule for the SLS's tests are shaky — there is no definitive launch schedule for the rocket beyond its first uncrewed test flight, which is slated for September 30th, 2018.
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It was the last planned test flight before Virgin Galactic will attempt an orbital mission.
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The company said it had also completed associated simulator testing and its engineering test flight.
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NASA is taking a closer look at problems found during the capsule's December test flight.
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The company also flew another test flight last Thursday, and it's gearing up for more.
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Then Rocket Lab also had some difficulty getting this second test flight off the ground.
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First static fire test of Falcon Heavy complete—one step closer to first test flight!
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The SLS is expected to be ready for Orion's next big test flight in 2018.
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The first test flight of the Global 7000 is expected later this year, he said.
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In 2014, the company's SpaceShipTwo broke apart during a test flight, killing the co-pilot.
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Testing out this system won't happen until spring 2019 now, after the uncrewed test flight.
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Back in April, 2015, Blue Origin conducted the first developmental test flight of New Shepard.
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Boeing hopes to launch its capsule, the Starliner, on an uncrewed test flight in August.
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A key step — a certification test flight by Boeing — is not expected until early November.
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But in 220, a crash landing during a test flight led Convair to back out.
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It's the first big test flight the company has done in more than a year.
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For the test flight, the airline is using a brand-new Boeing 787-210 Dreamliner.
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"Today was a test flight designed to test the boundaries of the vehicle," Tice said.
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For the test flight, the airline is using a brand-new Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner.
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Aquila, its first functional aircraft, completed its second successful test flight — and landed successfully, too.
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We're updating our original post about Aquila's test flight with a link to this article.
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On the test flight, the two side boosters were older versions reused from earlier flights.
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NASA is investigating Boeing after software coding errors jeopardized its Starliner spaceship's crucial test flight.
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A key step -- a certification test flight by Boeing -- is not expected until early November.
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New Shepard is fully autonomous, and it completed its 12th uncrewed test flight last month.
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That would mark the second test flight this year and the ninth for New Shepard.
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Meanwhile, NASA confirmed Thursday that SpaceX's first test flight for Dragon would delay to November.
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Blue Origin successfully launched the eighth test flight of its New Shepard rocket on Sunday.
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Virgin Galactic said the test flight reached an altitude of 51.4 miles, or nearly 83 kilometers.
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WhiteKnightTwo and the first SpaceShipTwo soaring over the Mojave Desert during a captive carry test flight.
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Earlier this year, Virgin Galactic completed a supersonic test flight of its SpaceShipTwo passenger rocket ship.
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That aircraft was seriously damaged after it crashed upon landing during a test flight last summer.
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Recently, the Lander Vision System went on a test flight aboard a helicopter in Death Valley.
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Bloomberg reported that a "structural failure" occurred during the drone's first test flight on June 28.
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Eviation is aiming for a first test-flight later this year and U.S. certification by 2022.
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NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will fly on the SpaceX Crew Dragon test flight.
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Typically, the agency does an uncrewed test flight first to determine if a vehicle is safe.
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And in 2014, the company's SpaceShipTwo broke apart during a test flight, killing the co-pilot.
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The US Federal Aviation Administration is yet to conduct a test flight with its own pilots.
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We haven't even flown the vehicle yet on one test flight, and the manifest is overflowing.
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The drone was uncrewed and hovered 200 meters high during the test flight, according to Reuters.
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But fast forward to 2018 and the rocket was finally ready for its first test flight.
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A longer test flight could have more benefits than just continuous access to the station, though.
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But to prove it works, Facebook's solar-powered plane just completed its first official test flight.
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And with each new powered test flight, Virgin Galactic further distances itself from the 2014 crash.
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The Crew Dragon spacecraft completed an uncrewed test flight in March that appeared to be successful.
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During Wednesday's test flight, the flight crew performed different scenarios to test failure conditions, Boeing said.
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Even with this change, the entire test flight went as smoothly as all the previous tests.
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That aircraft will make its first test flight in Seattle on Thursday, weather permitting, he said.
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A planned test flight date of October 2015 was pushed back, and then pushed back again.
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SpaceX just launched and landed a Mars spaceship prototype in a major test flight in Texas.
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Just like, would you rather fly in an aircraft that's never had a test flight before?
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On January 29, 2016, the Max made its first test flight, performing without any unusual incidents.
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Motherboard staff writer Daniel Oberhaus was at Cape Canaveral today for SpaceX's Falcon Heavy test flight.
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Read on to see what it was like to be on board this first test flight.
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Billionaire Richard Branson's space company is one test flight closer to taking up its first passengers.
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The licenses are for engines used in test-flight programs by the Chinese aircraft maker Comac.
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SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule completed a successful uncrewed test flight to the ISS earlier this year.
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And on the 50th anniversary of its test flight, we're remembering the superlatives of the Concorde.
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The Minnesota National Guard said it lost contact with the helicopter during a maintenance test flight.
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The aircraft has had teething issues, including a crash during a test flight in August 2016.
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On Tuesday SpaceX sent Musk's personal Tesla Roadster into space on its successful first test flight.
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The Minnesota National Guard personnel were conducting a routine maintenance test flight just after 23 p.m.
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Firefox Lockbox is now one of several projects Mozilla developed through its now-shuttered Test Flight program.
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This test flight took place at a school field in central Japan, near Toyota's own home base.
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The CH-53K completed its first test flight in October, marking a major milestone for the program.
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Stratolaunch flew the vehicle for the first time in April on its one and only test flight.
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Following the failure of Boeing's test flight, NASA convened a team to examine the issues that occurred.
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DICKSON SAYS FAA "HAS CONSIDERABLE WORK" TO DO AND "SEVERAL MORE WEEKS" BEFORE KEY CERTIFICATION TEST FLIGHT
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During a test flight in 1973, the vehicle crashed, resulting in the death of the vehicle's inventors.
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The first 25 Boom airplanes are for Virgin Group, with the first test flight happening next year.
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But in fact, the printer had already gone on its own zero-g test flight without us.
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It's the first landing that SpaceX has attempted since the Falcon Heavy's test flight in early February.
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Testing of the aircraft was halted after the crash during a test flight in Italy last year.
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This particular test flight will include one intentional parachute failure during the descent of the crew capsule.
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Denver start-up Boom Technology is planning a test flight for its supersonic jet later this year.
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We've had our first glimpse of Virgin Galactic's new test flight and it's out of this world.
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Sunday's launch follows the success of its second test flight in January, where it deployed three satellites.
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The next time the boosters are fired will be on the first test flight of the SLS.
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The first of the space taxis is scheduled for an unmanned debut test flight later this year.
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A little rocket will launch a clutch of tiny satellites to space for its next test flight.
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Russia's Ministry of Defence released video of a test flight of its Altius-U UAV on Tuesday.
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This initial test flight will send an Orion capsule around the moon with no one on board.
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You may remember the test flight of Lightsail, a prototype solar sailing spacecraft that launched in 2015.
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And China is now in the test-flight stage for mass-producing its own jetliners as well.
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On April 30, 1926, Ms. Coleman was airborne when her biplane flipped over during a test flight.
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Boeing has said it hopes to complete a key certification test flight in the "September time frame."
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A test flight with a full-size simulator of the cabin is scheduled for later this year.
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Boeing launched the Starliner on its first test flight on December 20th, without any people on board.
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So after the flight to 65,000 feet, Musk surmised SpaceX's next test flight may be to space.
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It's not clear if the timeline Musk laid out for Starship's first orbital test flight still stands.
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SpaceX already pulled off an uncrewed test flight of its vehicle, the Crew Dragon, back in March.
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Lynne Hopper, who previously oversaw Boeing&aposs test flight operations, will replace Hamilton, the Seattle Times reported.
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Keep scrolling to learn more about Elroy Air, and to see its first successful autonomous test flight:
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Watch a video of Facebook's Aquila drone test flight from June: This article originally appeared on Recode.net.
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Boeing's first test flight for its capsule, named Starliner, could be launched as soon as next month.
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The crew, embarking on an 18-hour, government-mandated endurance test flight, didn't feel like flying in circles.
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This March, a truck pulled onto a runway in Oregon, towing a miniature plane for a test flight.
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The Electron performed perfectly well during the first test flight and the rocket still made it to space.
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Both vehicles are slated to fly this year, with Boeing aiming for its first test flight in April.
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The company is gearing up for another test flight in the coming weeks out of the Mojave Desert.
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The company pulled off its second test flight in January, deeming the Electron rocket ready for commercial missions.
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Launch preparations are underway for New Shepard's 29th test flight, as we continue our progress toward human spaceflight.
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Assuming all went well, that same rocket and capsule will go back up in a future test flight.
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If all goes well, the British-designed hybrid vehicle could see its inaugural test flight later this summer.
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Oddly enough, the upcoming Falcon Heavy test flight does illustrate the need for a regulatory framework — and soon.
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The test flight in Manassas, Virginia, did not last long and did not include the aircraft flying forward.
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Separately, Boeing said CEO Dennis Muilenburg accompanied pilots aboard a successful 737 Max jet test flight on Wednesday.
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The space agency is currently building both; a test flight for the whole system is scheduled for 2018.
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For one, the North's missiles use tracking radar and wireless telemetry signals to provide missile test flight information.
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Today's test flight followed these parameters to the letter, though the numbers were considerably higher than April's flight.
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This will mark the fourth time this particular New Shepard rocket and capsule have flown a test flight.
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If the spacecraft returns to earth safely later this week, it will have been a successful test flight.
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Check back here around 9:30AM ET to follow our liveblog and then watch the test flight live.
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Mojave, California (CNN Business)Four years ago, a co-pilot was killed during a Virgin Galactic test flight.
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The team hasn't yet implemented solar panels on the prototype — the test flight plane ran using batteries only.
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Business Insider will be publishing a full behind-the-scenes report from Qantas' first Project Sunrise test flight.
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SpaceX's prototype rocket Starhopper aborted its test flight Monday with less than a second left on the countdown.
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Business Insider was on board for the first test flight, which landed after 19 hours and 16 minutes.
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This test flight bested April's in altitude, with Unity hitting the top of its climb at 114,500 feet.
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During our test flight, I sat in the forward-facing seat on the right side of the jet.
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To begin with, the test flight demonstrated Pyongyang's theoretical ability to hit targets as far away as Washington.
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During the first test flight using the new fuel in November of 1956, her calculation was proven correct.
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That, after all, is the reason a rocket company performs a test flight for a new rocket design.
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The first launch, a test flight without any astronauts aboard, was already not scheduled to occur before 2021.
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He added that NASA was instead considering using smaller commercial rockets to launch Orion for that test flight.
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The test flight astronauts on the Crew Dragon, both of whom joined NASA in 2000, will be Col.
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The uncrewed test is planned for November; the test flight with crew aboard is set for April 2019.
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Boeing is still finalizing updates to flight control software, which will be followed by a certification test flight.
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On Monday, the North's official news agency said Mr. Kim hugged rocket officials after Sunday's successful test flight.
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Blue Origin completed the 10th test flight of its New Shepard launch vehicle and capsule system in January.
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SpaceX is already planning the next big test flight of its future Starship rocket out of southern Texas.
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Mr. McDougall flew the 10-minute test flight himself earlier this month, a first step required by regulators.
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But Virgin Galactic froze ticket sales after a crash in 2014 killed a pilot during a test flight.
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Aquila's first test flight was less than a month ago, and that was at least six months delayed.
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They cheered as the first Max, nicknamed the Spirit of Renton, lifted off for its maiden test flight.
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The first test flight for one of these drones was completed in June, though it crashed upon landing.
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Facebook says it made a number of changes to the drone since its inaugural test flight last July.
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Virgin Galactic's VSS Unity suborbital space plane touches down after a successful powered test flight on May 29, 2018.
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Stay tuned to The Verge as we follow each major milestone of this crucial test flight throughout the week.
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SpaceX's first crewed test flight is slated to launch in July with U.S. astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken.
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Before this most recent test flight, World View had only flown a Stratollite for five days at a time.
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That changed in March with the latter's successful first test flight of Crew Dragon (loaded with cargo, not people).
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That's certainly expensive, but at least there's little risk of you completely destroying it on your maiden test flight.
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Details: "NASA is unlikely to meet its recently revised launch date for the first test flight," the report says.
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The company said it will be reviewing the data from this test flight to figure out its next move.
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In comparison, NASA's future Space Launch System will only do one test flight before it's certified to fly humans.
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All of these incremental milestones are said to be leading up to the Stratolaunch's first test flight in 2019.
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The SLS program has suffered schedule delays and cost overruns, with its first test flight not expected until 2020.
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This would completely restructure the first crewed trip for Starliner, which was only meant to be a test flight.
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Jeff Bezos' spaceflight venture Blue Origin plans to do another test flight this week, as early as Tuesday morning.
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Now, the uncrewed test flight is slated for November 2018, and SpaceX is targeting the crewed flight for April.
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The test flight was originally scheduled for January, but was later delayed to complete hardware testing and other reviews.
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NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley have been selected to take part in the Crew Dragon test flight.
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Boeing is coming closer to making its flying taxis for Uber a reality with its first successful test flight.
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Russia has surprised the airline industry by announcing the successful test flight of a new medium range passenger plane.
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If not, we're at least guaranteed a nice fireworks show today, since the test flight will be live streamed.
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The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) must complete that audit before a key certification test flight can be scheduled.
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In the seventh test flight, New Shepard's booster reached nearly 61 miles above sea level before the capsule separated.
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Airbus debuted its A2900neo Thursday as the new plane took off from Toulouse, France on its maiden test flight.
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"But, despite those measures, as he also tweeted this morning, "And of course–development test flight–anything can happen.
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Macomber was flying a hydrogen peroxide-fueled jet pack during a test flight near the Denver Energy drink company.
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The FC-31 made its first test flight in 2012 but has yet to be set a commission date.
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The first crewed test flight of SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule will include NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley.
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This one is just a test flight, so no one — even Musk himself — is truly certain how it'll go.
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It marked the 12th uncrewed test flight for Blue Origin's fully autonomous rocket and spacecraft system, called New Shepard.
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Blue Origin also filed an application for its next test flight with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on Tuesday.
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New York (CNN Business)SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule on Friday returned home from its historic six-day test flight.
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During today's test flight, Boeing planned to demonstrate Starliner's ability to travel to space and dock with the station.
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The short test flight took place on the Fraser River at Harbour Air Seaplanes terminal in Richmond, near Vancouver.
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Blue Origin also aims to fly New Glenn equipped with the engines for their first test flight in 2021.
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Boeing's Starliner also may fly with no crew in March, followed by a test flight carrying astronauts in August.
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NASA will then plan to build a one-third-scale prototype and conduct the first test flight in 2020.
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The test flight featured a 70-foot, two-stage LauncherOne rocket strapped to Cosmic Girl, a modified 747-400 plane.
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This was the fourth test flight for this individual rocket booster, which is the third booster Blue Origin has built.
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Additionally, NASA confirmed on Friday that Boeing's Starliner suffered not one but two major software defects during that test flight.
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The Orion spacecraft will launch atop NASA's Space Launch System rocket on EM-1, an unmanned test flight, in 2018.
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In February, Virgin Galactic took three test passengers to the edge of space and back in a supersonic test flight.
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As a result, Boeing is not expected to run a certification test flight until at least July 8, they said.
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The test flight in Shanghai lasted for 1 hour and 25 minutes, the People's Daily reported on its Twitter account.
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The world's largest aircraft, the Airlander 10 airship, has crashed and suffered damage on its second test flight on Wednesday.
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As of now, there are no plans to fly the smaller version of the SLS after the first test flight.
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This will be the third test flight of the year for Blue Origin, potentially with the same New Shepard vehicle.
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He was a last-minute replacement for rookie Donn Eisele, who dislocated his shoulder leading up to the test flight.
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Crew for the Starliner test flight are NASA astronauts Eric Boe and Nicole Aunapu-Mann and Boeing astronaut Chris Ferguson.
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The first SpaceShipTwo — named Enterprise and unveiled in 22009 — disintegrated above the Mojave Desert during a test flight on Oct.
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But before it can do all that, the SLS has to prove itself in the form of a test flight.
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Normally, Blue Origin's launches are kept very secret, but this time, the test flight wasn't as much of a surprise.
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With the test flight under its belt, the rocket needed "to get some commercial customers," Dr. Greg Autry told CNBC.
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Journalists covering the test flight didn't even know it happened, until a Bloomberg report last month revealed the crash landing.
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For the last test flight, CEO Jeff Bezos announced the launch beforehand and then proceeded to live-tweet the event.
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And the CEO announced the most recent test flight of the New Shepard in April, before it actually took place.
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The tentative plan for SLS after its second test flight is to send it on the contentious Asteroid Redirect Mission.
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The test flight was a crucial milestone before the company moves forward with its aim of sending tourists to space.
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Congratulations to SpaceX for successfully launching their Falcon Heavy rocket from the Kennedy Space Center on its first test flight.
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The first test flight of the rocket could happen in early 22019, according to a vice president for Virgin Orbit.
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An ongoing regulatory safety review means a key 737 Max certification test flight is unlikely before November, Reuters reported Tuesday.
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Now, Qantas has completed a test flight of a similarly-strenuous version, totaling nearly 20 hours, from London to Sydney.
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Boeing's December test flight was to have been the last major milestone before NASA agreed to putting its astronauts aboard.
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We're just about to take off for our test flight, but I will have more updates as we go on.
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The company has already set aside $410 million to pay for a second test flight in case NASA orders one.
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The space agency is still overseeing the process, and it signed off on Boeing's work before Starliner's December test flight.
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Ticket sales have essentially been frozen since a Virgin Galactic crash in 2014 killed a pilot during a test flight.
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During the second test flight, Starhopper reached an altitude of nearly 500 feet, moved sideways a few yards, and landed.
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Galactic's back-to-back test flight successes indicate that Galactic could be on track to start flying tourists this year.
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Iran wrapped the test flight in secrecy, and sky monitors know for sure only that no satellite went into orbit.
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Doug Rozendaal, the pilot in command for the test flight of "That's All, Brother," said every C-47 is unique.
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The inspector once discovered a bolt inside an engine of a plane that had gone up for a test flight.
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Instead, November 2017 will see an uncrewed test flight for the Dragon capsule that was originally scheduled for May 2017.
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Flying vehicle startup Vertical Aerospace has conducted the first test flight of its electric vertical take off and landing aircraft.
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The company was founded in 2016 by OVO Energy CEO Stephen Fitzpatrick, and now it's conducted its first test flight.
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No date has been given for the next test flight, but Blue Origin is expected to conduct one later this summer.
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Once that process is complete, it will work with the FAA to schedule a certification test flight and complete certification paperwork.
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"I think it's conceivable that we do a first test flight [to Earth orbit] in 3 or 4 years," Musk added.
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In the months ahead, SpaceX will perform another test flight — one designed to try out the Crew Dragon's emergency abort system.
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The company's last test flight to space occurred in February out of Virgin's facility at the Mojave Air and Space Port.
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BOEING - ONCE FAA'S REQUESTS ARE ADDRESSED, WILL WORK WITH FAA TO SCHEDULE ITS CERTIFICATION TEST FLIGHT AND SUBMIT FINAL CERTIFICATION DOCUMENTATION
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The company accompanied the announcement of the new drone with a test flight video, showing how the craft transforms in midair.
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The company will be investigating why and will aim for the Electron to get to orbit during its second test flight.
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We need to finish the move down to Spaceport America before we begin the last phase of our test flight program.
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Reuters reported on Wednesday that Boeing will not conduct a certification test flight until July 8, under a best-case scenario.
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Boeing said it is addressing additional questions from the regulator and will schedule a certification test flight once those are answered.
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The contraption even launches the plane at the end of the assembly line, sending it off on its maiden test flight.
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If all goes well, it could be the last test flight before Rocket Lab begins commercial flights in the coming year.
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When Electron blasts off from New Zealand's Mahia Peninsula in its maiden orbital test flight, it won't be carrying a payload.
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The first test flight for the integrated system is expected in 2020, though some reports suggest it will likely be delayed.
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The rocket has only flown once during a test flight, and while it made it to space, it didn't reach orbit.
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Virgin Galactic's Unity test flight video footage makes us unbelievably tempted to take out a loan: Additional reporting by Miriam Kramer.
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The mission is a key test flight to prove to NASA that the agency's astronauts will be safe on future flights.
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The first uncrewed test flight, tentatively scheduled for May, has been pushed all the way out to August, Boeing confirmed yesterday.
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The Electron's first test flight, which took place at the company's picturesque launch facility in New Zealand, was deemed a success.
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Rocket Lab intended to do a second test flight in December, but the weather and some technical snags prevented the launch.
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Insider reached out to Edwards Air Force Base regarding the test flight, but did not receive a response by press time.
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The aim was to conduct another long-distance test flight in late January, chief engineer Wang Wei was quoted as saying.
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This next test flight will be its last, according to Musk, with Starhopper expected to be stripped and its parts reused.
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Unity underwent extensive engine testing and seven glide tests before Virgin Galactic said it was ready for a powered test flight.
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The MQ-25 Stingray, an unmanned aerial vehicle designed to refuel Navy aircraft, took its first test flight on September 19.
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When one of its rockets crashed during a test flight in 2011, a week passed before Mr. Bezos acknowledged the failure.
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But, although the investigation is complete, neither the agency or Boeing were confident about when the next test flight will happen.
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But progress was slow, and in 2014, the first of its space planes disintegrated during a test flight, killing a pilot.
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An uncrewed test flight of a Boeing spacecraft designed to carry NASA astronauts may have narrowly avoided catastrophic failure in December.
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Galactic stopped taking orders after it saw a huge spike in interest following its first successful test flight in December 2018.
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Once that test is complete, SpaceX will be done with most of its test flight milestones for the Commercial Crew Program.
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Boeing's Starliner experienced problems during its first uncrewed test flight in December and was unable to dock with the space station.
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After numerous delays and setbacks, including a fatal 2014 crash, Galactic demonstrated its second successful test flight to space in February.
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Bar-Yohay said his full-scale prototype aircraft, named "Alice Commuter", should be ready for a test flight in early 2019.
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NASA also confirmed last December that the first crewed test flight of SpaceX's Dragon vehicle has been delayed until May 2018.
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In April, Lilium announced a world-first test flight of its all electric, two-seater, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) prototype.
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With the successful launch and docking procedure now behind it, only one important test remains for SpaceX's test flight: the return trip.
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Crew members on the ground helped to make sure the test flight went smoothly after dozens of ground tests before Thursday's flight.
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Back in 2017, Lilium announced the first test flight of its all-electric two-seater vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) prototype.
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Even so, the new technology is at least two years away from its first planned test flight, which has already been delayed.
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Crew Dragon's uncrewed test flight to the space station went smoothly, however, which just leaves SpaceX with analysis and paperwork to complete.
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Once the requests are addressed, Boeing will work with the FAA to schedule its certification test flight and submit final certification documentation.
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The spaceplane, called VSS Unity, effectively replaces Virgin Galactic's first SpaceShipTwo vehicle, which was destroyed during a powered test flight in 2014.
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This was the first powered test of the Unity since the SpaceShipTwo Enterprise broke up during a test flight in late 2014.
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Schiaparelli is designed to be a test flight for another ExoMars venture -- a 2020 launch that will send a rover to Mars.
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Facebook's Aquila drone, which is also supposed to beam Internet down to Earth, crashed in June 2016 during its first test flight.
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Another startup, SureFly, was supposed to mark an important test flight at CES in January, but bad weather grounded the flying taxi.
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Last month, aerospace giant Airbus conducted the first successful test flight of its Vahana electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft.
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Since November 2017, NASA has been targeting the first test flight of SLS for 2019, but that has now shifted to 2020.
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However, the change isn't a done deal yet, as NASA needs to figure out if it can accommodate a longer test flight.
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Schiaparelli was designed to be a test flight for another mission -- a planned 2020 launch that will send a rover to Mars.
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Boeing also plans to fly its own private crew member, Chris Ferguson, a former NASA astronaut, on that test flight as well.
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Space Bae was stationed outside of mission control during the test flight launch, waiting with viewers as Falcon Heavy prepared for launch.
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But a successful first test flight is certainly an encouraging sign for anyone excited about the prospect of even faster Amazon deliveries.
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We'll do another test flight, and at some point soon we'll test the solar-powered plane with the communications payload in it.
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Business Insider will be on board the New York-to-Sydney test flight, dubbed "Project Sunrise," on Friday, reporting from the air.
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The Dragon, designed to take astronauts to the International Space Station, will have no one on board for its initial test flight.
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Unity's test flight comes not long after the company completed the spacecraft's first powered flight in nearly four years on April 5.
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It states SpaceX will conduct its first crewed test flight by December of this year, and Boeing will fly astronauts in November.
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NASA will decide whether to approve the test flight without a crew, while SpaceX addresses the issues raised for a human mission.
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If the test flight succeeds, SpaceX has four additional Heavy launches on its manifest, including one for the United States Air Force.
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At the time, NASA did not rule out allowing Starliner to launch its first-ever crewed mission without repeating the test flight.
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Branson told CNBC after the previous test flight that Virgin Galactic was "only two or three more flights" away from reaching space.
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The Dragon, designed to take astronauts to the International Space Station, will have no one on board for its initial test flight.
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The company expects to fly people to space in 2020, with at least one test flight of its New Shepard rocket remaining.
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Boeing announced on Wednesday that its first Starliner test flight would be pushed from August to later this year, at the earliest.
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Unlike with a test flight two years ago, the aircraft that was flown was a production model, the state news agency said.
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ANY ASTRONAUT CREW WOULD HAVE BEEN SAFE DESPITE AUTOMATION ERROR ON BOEING'S CST-100 STARLINER ASTRONAUT CAPSULE UNMANNED TEST FLIGHT -NASA ADMINISTRATOR
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The capsule has flown once in space so far, making its debut last year in a successful test flight without a crew.
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The 80-minute test flight took off and landed from Victorville, California, and included measurements and handling assessments, according to a press release.
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"So, right after the accident we had to pivot pretty quickly and go back to make this a test flight vehicle," Moses said.
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Its supersonic subscale demonstrator jet, the XB-1, is still on track to fly its first test flight by the end of 2018.
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NASA astronauts Eric Boe and Nicole Aunapu Mann, along with Boeing's company astronaut Christopher Ferguson, will fly on the Boeing Starliner test flight.
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Normally I'm not easily taken in by promises of airborne commutes, but Lilium's successful test flight video does have my hopes flying aflutter.
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If it does make it to the test flight stage, it wouldn't be the first UFO-inspired helicopter to get off the ground.
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Blue Origin recently performed a test flight that brought its rocket and capsule back to Earth after flying to the edge of space.
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Its first, the VSS Enterprise, was destroyed during a test flight in 2014, leading to the death of one of its two pilots.
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Earlier this year, Aurora ran a successful test flight program for its XV-24A Demonstrator, a subscale version of the eventual production vehicle.
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A more advanced vehicle, the XQ58a Valkyrie, took to the air on March 5th, making a successful test flight at Yuma in Arizona.
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The first core stage, meant to be used on the SLS's inaugural test flight, was supposed to be delivered in June of 21.
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The test flight on Friday included a third passenger, Beth Moses, who is the company's chief astronaut instructor and a micro-gravity researcher.
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Provided the mission is successful and following further testing, a Demo-2 crewed test flight could be heading to the ISS in July.
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Airlander 10, the world's largest aircraft, on Wednesday crashed at its Cardington Airfield base in Bedfordshire, England after attempting its second test flight.
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Plus, the company also had a fatal accident in 2014, which killed one test pilot and seriously injured another during a test flight.
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Blue Origins first reusable rocket was lost in a test flight in April 2015, though the capsule parachuted safely back to the ground.
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In 2014, disaster struck the program when a Virgin Galactic spaceship crashed during a test flight, with wreckage falling over the Mojave Desert.
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Our maintenance team conducted a thorough inspection of the aircraft, including a test flight, and found no issues with the Boeing 777-300.
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Calling DRU's maiden voyage a "test flight" might give the event a military-industrial complex vibe, but the reality is far more benign.
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The Falcon Heavy has yet to fly, but SpaceX is planning the first test flight of the vehicle for November of this year.
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Boeing hopes to conduct a certification test flight in the "September time frame," a key step before the FAA can unground the planes.
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But the country has never carried out a successful test flight of a long-range missile that could reach the continental United States.
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Also this test flight had a few experimental payloads on board as well as a dummy, which Blue Origin appropriately named Mannequin Skywalker.
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"We're going to take a first test flight in 2019 and we're going to do a slingshot mission around the Moon," he said.
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For pilots Mark "Forger" Stucky and Frederick "CJ" Sturckow, looming over the flight was the memory of a tragic test flight in 21.
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Mojave, California (CNN Business)Virgin Galactic's supersonic space plane soared into the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere Thursday for a milestone test flight.
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It is not clear when Boeing will conduct a key certification test flight, a step needed before thecan return the plane to service.
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In 2014, the SpaceShipTwo crashed on a test flight, leading to the co-pilot's death as well as serious injuries to the pilot.
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If all goes according to plan, Musk aims to have the first test flight for Starship within the next one to two months.
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Image: NASASpaceX's new commercial astronaut capsule, the Crew Dragon, has completed its first test flight, falling into the Atlantic Ocean on Friday morning.
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Comac's first plane, designed to compete with the single-aisle Boeing 737 Max and Airbus A320, made its first test flight in 2017.
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SOFTWARE UPDATES AND FLIGHT TESTS Boeing is still finalizing updates to flight control software, which will be followed by a certification test flight.
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"Our enabling laws and regulation means we have the ideal environment," New Zealand Transport Minister Simon Bridges said after the Domino's test flight.
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"If people had been on board that craft, they would have returned safely," Musk said of the test flight to the space station.
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If that test flight goes well, SpaceX is then poised to fly humans on the Crew Dragon for the first time next year.
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Comac's first plane, designed to compete with the single-aisle Boeing 265 MAX and Airbus A2787, made its first test flight in 22013.
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It was the fifth powered test flight of the SpaceShipTwo design, and the first since the fatal crash of Spaceship Enterprise on Oct.
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"Today, we made history," said Greg McDougall, CEO and founder of Harbour Air Seaplanes in statement, shortly after piloting the test flight himself.
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Blue Origin's first reusable rocket was lost in a test flight in April 2015, though the capsule parachuted safely back to the ground.
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The Defiant faces stiff competition from the Valor, which flew at 200 knots at a test flight in January, according to Defense News.
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The two US Air Force T-250 supersonic jets performed a test flight in California flying 260 feet apart to create interacting shockwaves.
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Boeing's botched Starliner test flight A minor blemish for Boeing's Starliner capsule came in November during a test of its emergency abort system.
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It's aiming to serve a range of customers across commercial, humanitarian and military industries, and completed its first test flight earlier this year.
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The next day, just before the scheduled public test flight for the Volocopter 23X, a brisk downpour threatened to cancel the entire demonstration.
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Boeing said its CEO Dennis Muilenburg joined the Wednesday test flight and that the flight crew performed different scenarios to test failure conditions.
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Rocket Lab — a US-based company that launches out of New Zealand — pulled off its first test flight ever of the Electron in May.
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" Commenting on Bloomberg's report, a Facebook spokesperson told Mashable the company was happy with the first test flight, which had "no major unexpected results.
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"Various elements of the test flight, including with the raising/lowering of the landing gear, were all completed smoothly," COMAC said in a statement.
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August 3, 2012: An MV-22 (Osprey) aircraft arrives for a test flight with the Japanese delegation at the Pentagon landing field in Washington.
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Now, NASA has revealed a second software issue with the Starliner, which ground controllers had to fix in the middle of that test flight.
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No astronauts were onboard for the test flight, but the error has prompted NASA to launch a larger investigation into Boeing's coding and culture.
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Musk wasn't happy that Bezos was insinuating that this Blue Origin test flight was a "first" for reusability, and he made it known... publicly.
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That may or may not be the goal for the next test flight, depending on what the company learns from this most recent test.
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SpaceX had planned to use the pad for the first time later this year for a test flight of its new Falcon Heavy rocket.
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But it is now clear that the new problem means Boeing will not conduct a certified test flight before July 8 at the earliest.
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Neither Wired, CNN, nor The Verge were present for the test flight and relied solely on the information provided by Facebook three weeks later.
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CFM has not been without its own test flight problems, with a delay of 1-2 weeks last summer due to a faulty part.
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The mission was Virgin Galactic's fourth powered test flight of VSS Unity, the craft it expects to use to haul wealthy sightseers into space.
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Luff, though, was hesitant to let me fly or do another test flight: The extra batteries and charger were also in his lost luggage.
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This is the latest version the company has revealed to the public since their deadly crash during a test flight with the previous version.
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A fatal accident during a test flight in 2014 destroyed Virgin Galactic's first SpaceShipTwo, greatly setting back the company's progress on the spaceflight system.
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A Boeing 29 MAX 8 jetliner being built for Turkish Airlines takes off on a test flight, Wednesday, May 8, 2019, in Renton, Wash.
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Each successive test flight will bring both expected and unexpected technical challenges, and will teach us more about how to fly this experimental aircraft.
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For this test flight, Blue Origin plans to use the same New Shepard vehicle that the company has launched and landed three times before.
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Now, the first crewed test flight of Starliner is on track for August 2018, with the first fully operational flights getting underway in December.
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SpaceX is scheduled to do an uncrewed test flight of the Dragon capsule in April, followed by the first crewed flight test in August.
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This particular Phenom 300, which I had a chance to ride on during a test flight, is flown by Airshare, a fractional ownership company.
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While the route might not enter regular service with publicly-available tickets until 2022 or 2023, a test flight was conducted on November 14.
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The Falcon Heavy rocket hasn't even performed a test flight, but both of these steps should be completed before the lunar mission blasts off.
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Called Demo-1, the mission is a key test flight to prove to NASA that the agency's astronauts will be safe on future flights.
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Hopefully the Falcon Heavy will see its first test flight in the coming months, but the company has yet to set a launch date.
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In its effort to solve for expected delays, NASA paid Boeing $95 million to add one more astronaut on the first crewed test flight.
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On a Dreamliner that Boeing had already given a test flight, Mr. Ormson saw that a bolt was loose inside one of the engines.
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A software glitch that could have destroyed the capsule was fixed in orbit, during an uncrewed December test flight that had already gone awry.
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China's first direct competitor to Boeing (BA) and Airbus' dominant single-aisle jets, the Comac C919, made its first test flight in May 2017.
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Original story: A week after performing a crucial test flight for NASA, SpaceX is poised to launch yet another Falcon 29 rocket from Florida.
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Mr. Musk said an orbital test flight of a refined Starship prototype and the Super Heavy booster could come in less than six months.
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The J-20 made its first test flight in 2011, made its public debut at Airshow China 2016 and entered military service in 2017.
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New York (CNN Business)SpaceX will bring its Crew Dragon spacecraft home from the International Space Station Friday, capping its historic first test flight.
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Last year, it also conducted a second test flight of a large-scale drone, called Aquila, designed to beam internet access from the sky.
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While the test flight version of SLS will lift around the same amount of mass compared to Falcon Heavy, that's where the similarities end.
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With a Boeing pilot in command, this test flight allowed the Air Force its first in-flight look at the capabilities of the aircraft.
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The company capped a bad week with a flawed test flight of a capsule built for NASA to carry astronauts to the space station.
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The Starliner test flight, which was intended to test the automated systems and did not carry any astronauts, ended up in the wrong orbit.
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The Aquila drone, which has a wingspan of over 113 feet – bigger than a Boeing 737 – just completed its first official test flight this summer.
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The company had planned to use the pad for the first time later this year for a test flight of its new Falcon Heavy rocket.
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You'll notice a few patches for Orion, one for a SpaceX resupply mission, and another for a LightSail test flight from a couple years ago.
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The suborbital SpaceShipTwo vehicle , known as VSS Unity, completed its second-ever powered test flight today (May 2250), soaring high over California&aposs Mojave Desert.
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The splashdown marks the last major milestone of SpaceX's Demonstration-1 or DM-1 mission, a critical test flight required for NASA's Commercial Crew Program.
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Two NASA astronauts, Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, are scheduled to fly on the capsule for the first time, during the vehicle's final test flight.
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For that to happen, each company has to conduct a crewed test flight, carrying astronauts to the station like they would for a regular mission.
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Once the requests are addressed, Boeing will work with the FAA to schedule its certification test flight and submit final certification documentation, the company said.
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The test flight is a milestone for the long-range business jet, which is considered key to the growth of the company's corporate plane division.
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On Sunday, the company performed its first captive-carry test flight with the rocket, keeping it firmly attached to the wing of its carrier airplane.
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But if the vehicle's key systems check out okay, the uncrewed test flight will then be followed by a crewed one scheduled for June 2019.
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Update April 29th, 1:20PM ET: Private space company Blue Origin successfully conducted its eighth test flight of its New Shepherd rocket in Texas today.
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The test mission completed numerous milestones, each of which NASA and SpaceX will be reviewing before going forward with a crewed test flight this spring.
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Airbus conducted the first successful test flight of its Vahana electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft on January 31st, the aerospace giant announced.
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The Humanity Star rode into space on January 21st on the second test flight of Rocket Lab's Electron rocket, along with three other small satellites.
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The test flight was originally scheduled for Tuesday, but Blue Origin halted the mission due to some issues with the launch infrastructure on the ground.
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NASA said that most of these same experiments flew on Unity's first spaceflight, while two also launched on Blue Origin's rocket test flight in January.
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Aiming to be the world's first commercial spaceline, Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic launched a test flight of its SpaceShipTwo space plane, VSS Unity, on Thursday.
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That's where it will live until it goes on its first uncrewed test flight on top of NASA's next big rocket, the Space Launch System.
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Boeing's first test flight was slated for April but it has been pushed to August, according to two people with direct knowledge of the matter.
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The first test flight of the SLS and Orion combo is scheduled for 2018, but beyond that, the rocket's future is up in the air.
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The $47 million, 100 seat MRJ, which made its maiden test flight in November, represents Japan's long-held ambition to reestablish a commercial aircraft industry.
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That means the first crewed test flight will likely be pushed back yet again — becoming the third flight of the SLS rather than the second.
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If it fits the simulated predictions, it'll go into production for use in the XB-1 during its first test flight, planned for next year.
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"The lone test flight was incredible but not enough to prove for someone to put an expensive payload on board," Autry said of Falcon Heavy.
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Founder Jeff Bezos, who invests $1 billion each year into Blue Origin from the proceeds of selling his Amazon stock, announced the test flight Friday.
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The U.S. assessed that the longest test flight lasted just more than two minutes, with the missile flying 22 miles before losing control and crashing.
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Company founder Elon Musk hailed the test flight, which sent the rocket soaring to about 65 feet (20 meters), as a success early Friday morning.
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Virgin Galactic took another step on Tuesday toward beginning commercial operations with its latest test flight, only 54 days after its last launch went supersonic.
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Business Briefing The European aircraft maker Airbus said that the inaugural test flight of its first airplane made in the United States was a success.
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Boeing has yet to complete a certification test flight and formally submit its software upgrade and training changes to the Federal Aviation Administration for approval.
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"The $95 million was to add a third crew member and also to extend the test flight to up to six months," NASA's Finch said.
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The company's executives did not give a specific date for when they expect their next test flight to take place or their first commercial mission.
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Starliner's December test flight, a mission years in the making, was designed to show that the vehicle can safely dock with the International Space Station.
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Jeff Bezos shared a video of himself reading kids&apos postcards sent to him on a test flight for Blue Origin&aposs space tourism rocket.
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Indeed, after the sheer exhilaration of Tuesday's test flight wears away, you're still left pondering the stunning possibilities unleashed by its (so far) apparent success.
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Incredibly, Johnson and the Skunk Works team successfully developed, built, and conducted the first test flight of the U-22 in less than eight months.
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A Black Hawk helicopter carrying three Army National Guard members crashed on Thursday in Minnesota during a maintenance test flight, killing everyone on board, Gov.
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For today's test flight, the company was originally targeting a launch time of 10AM ET, but heavy fog forced the engineering team to delay takeoff.
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SpaceX already completed an uncrewed test flight to the station, but it's not yet clear when the company will fly its first crew to orbit.
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It won't have people on board when it launches Saturday, but a successful test flight could tee up the company to fly astronauts this summer.
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The Delta IV Heavy for example, launched the Orion spacecraft on a test flight, and the Atlas V rocket launched the Curiosity rover to Mars.
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In August, SpaceX completed its final test flight of the Starhopper rocket prototype, a scaled-down version of the Starship that's designed for shorter flights.
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Recorded back in November 2015, the flight was UP Aerospace's test flight to check the aerodynamics and stability of payload upon reentry for future missions.
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The agency also wants input from international regulators EASA, Canada and Brazil before it conducts the certification test flight, a key step before final approval.
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But if the commercial approach works for the test flight, some space watchers wonder why the same strategy would not work for missions carrying astronauts.
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On March 20th in Palm Springs, CA, I saw the first public test flight in the US at a private Amazon emerging tech conference called MARS.
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You can't even install any app that doesn't come from the Almighty App store without basically needing to be a developer with a Test Flight account.
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Image: Virgin GalacticBritish billionaire Richard Branson says Virgin Galactic—after years of promises and delays—is just weeks away from conducting its first suborbital test flight.
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The space tourism project was dealt a major blow after an in-air explosion killed one of the company's pilots on a test flight in 2014.
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LinkSpace's test flight on Saturday came on the heels of a historic delivery of a satellite into orbit last month by privately owned Chinese firm iSpace.
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In October 2014, during a test flight, the craft broke apart over the Mojave Desert when one of its pilots prematurely unlocked the ship's braking mechanism.
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Originally, the SLS was supposed to fly for the first time as early as 2.23, but its first test flight has been pushed back to 2020.
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Airbus A380 — the world's largest passenger plane — carried out a very festive test flight over Germany on Wednesday, as can be viewed on flight tracker websites.
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This was the second flight for Falcon Heavy, which became the most powerful rocket in use in the world after SpaceX's successful test flight in 2018.
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Today, Munich-based Lilium Aviation announced an important milestone: the first test flight of its all-electric, two-seater, vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) prototype.
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Where it stands: NASA, SpaceX and Boeing have announced their initial commercial crew test flight and ISS mission astronauts, who are now training for these flights.
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Branson's Virgin Galactic suffered a setback two years ago when its spacecraft came apart during a test flight, but it recently began flight testing once again.
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Obviously, we'll need to take both of these drones out for a true head-to-head test flight in order to determine which is the best.
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As of this month, SpaceX has been planning to fly the first uncrewed test flight of its vehicle, the Crew Dragon, as early as January 2019.
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They'll be on the first test flight of the vehicle, a crucial trip that NASA will use to certify the Crew Dragon for future human missions.
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On March 235th Boeing revealed that the new engines, the largest ever made, for its new 2787X wide-body airliner had completed their first test flight.
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The first test flight of SpaceX's massive Falcon Heavy rocket, which stands over 21 storeys high, is tentatively scheduled for spring 2017, after years of delays.
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Since January, SpaceX has been scheduled to do the first uncrewed test flight of its Crew Dragon in August, followed by a crewed flight in December.
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Boeing has released video of a test flight showing its autonomous passenger air vehicle lifting off, hovering for a short time before making a controlled landing.
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Update April 11th, 8:31PM ET: Zapata Racing has uploaded a second video of the test flight to its Facebook page, which you can see below.
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Virgin Galactic is celebrating a successful second test flight of SpaceShipTwo, the rocket-powered passenger spacecraft that may someday take tourists to the edge of space.
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If that test flight results in US certification, then European regulators will weigh in, and pilots at airlines must be trained to use the improved system.
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ET (1752 GMT) from Renton Municipal Airport in Renton, Washington, on a test flight to help prepare the new version for delivery to customers next year.
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Blue Origin planned a more risky rocket landing for this test flight, only re-lighting the rocket when it was about 3,600 feet from the ground.
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The two Russians were making a test flight in the Homs region with a Syrian Mi-25 helicopter that was carrying ammunition, the Defense Ministry said.
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It was supposed to be a quick test flight, but something went horribly wrong, and the plane crashed just west of the Colorado border in Utah.
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The first successful test flight recently completed a 10 kilometer route from a community health center to the Kamuzu Central Hospital laboratory in the capital Lilongwe.
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Hundreds of spectators, including Virgin Galactic ticket holders and CEO George Whitesides, gathered on a clear morning in the desert to watch this latest test flight.
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Other new companies aiming at small payloads include Rocket Lab, which over the weekend had its first successful orbital test flight, and Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit.
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Regulators have yet to take a test flight on a Max equipped with the new software — a critical step before reapproval — and airlines keep canceling flights.
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But rough waves in the Atlantic Ocean — where Crew Dragon is expected to land after the test flight — prompted SpaceX to delay the test another day.
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It's possible NASA may not require Boeing to do another test flight and will instead let the company proceed with putting astronauts on board the vehicle.
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The $47 million, 100 seat MRJ, which made its maiden test flight in November, represents Japan's long-held ambition to re-establish a commercial aircraft industry.
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The rocket's demise is part of a planned test flight that's supposed to demonstrate SpaceX's ability to handle a catastrophic failure of one of its vehicles.
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A Vancouver-based airline is one step closer to launching the world&aposs first all-electric commercial plane after a successful test flight on December 10.
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SpaceX's own Falcon Heavy rocket, which Musk wants to use for the lunar tourist mission, is scheduled to make a debut test flight later this year.
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The capsule is designed to carry up to seven people, but for this test flight it will be loaded with 400 pounds of cargo and supplies.
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The official process calls for Boeing to file for recertification after a test flight that includes one pilot from Boeing and one pilot from the FAA.
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The unmanned test flight will rocket 280,000 miles from Earth (thousands of miles past the moon) — farther than any spacecraft built for humans has ever ventured.
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The test flight followed Galactic's historic first mission to space in December, which earned commercial astronaut wings for pilots Mark "Forger" Stucky and Frederick "CJ" Sturckow.
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Cover Image: A Boeing 737 MAX 8 jetliner being built for Turkish Airlines takes off on a test flight, Wednesday, May 8, 2019, in Renton, Wash.
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The biggest test of this carefully built customer community came in 2014, when a test flight crash killed the co-pilot and seriously injured the pilot.
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Boeing has yet to complete a certification test flight and formally submit its software upgrade and training changes to the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for approval.
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The company pushed through despite this major setback, with Branson now saying the company is just a few weeks away from conducting its first suborbital test flight.
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On July 21, Jay Parikh, global head of engineering and infrastructure at Facebook, addressed Aquila's maiden test flight in a blog post, claiming it out-performed expectations.
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Lilium has successfully tested its all-electric vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) jet for the first time, and you can watch the inaugural test flight above.
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Aviation has a new number one in size, as a one-of-a-kind airplane completed its first test flight on Saturday morning above California's Mojave desert.
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This was the second flight for Falcon Heavy, which became the most powerful rocket in use in the world after SpaceX's successful test flight in February 2018.
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Dickson told Reuters last month that the FAA would need about 30 days from the time of the certification test flight before the plane could resume flights.
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The plan is for each vehicle to do an uncrewed test flight first, where they will launch empty and dock at the ISS for a few days.
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Aurora Flight Sciences, a subsidiary of aerospace giant Boeing, said Wednesday that it recently conducted the first test flight of its all-electric autonomous passenger air vehicle.
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However, the New Shepard vehicle that went through testing all year has since been retired, after surviving a test flight that was supposed to destroy the rocket.
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The planets are conspiring on behalf of All Hallows' Eve with a horoscopic lineup so hauntingly ideal, we're already breaking out our broomsticks for a test flight.
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A real one just finished its first test flight program, as the Aurora Flight Science LightningStrike XV-24A Demonstrator Craft ended its first stage of flight testing.
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Now, Boeing's test flight is looking more like a full crewed mission — the kind that it will be doing regularly once its Starliner is qualified for flight.
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They announced they had completed an engineering test flight with the updated software, which is the key technical flight prior to the certification flight with the FAA.
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Boeing is aiming to launch Starliner's uncrewed test flight sometime in August, potentially putting the capsule on track to fly astronauts by the end of the year.
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That adaptor saw some action for the first time this March when SpaceX's new Crew Dragon capsule automatically docked with the port during an uncrewed test flight.
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Pilots Dave Mackay and Michael "Sooch" Masucci also became astronauts, as the company said the test flight reached an altitude of 55.9 miles, or nearly 90 kilometers.
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Since the test flight will take the Orion close to the Moon, many of the probes are designed to do close-up analysis of the lunar surface.
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Virgin Galactic pilots Dave Mackay and Mike Masucci flew the aerospace company's fifth-supersonic powered test flight — with a working passenger aboard, chief astronaut instructor Beth Moses.
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The capsule, which conducted a six-day test flight to the International Space Station in March, was one of at least six models SpaceX has in production.
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In 2012 it took its first test flight, but the project was scrapped that same year because of defense cuts as the war in Afghanistan wound down.
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The new design is the first in a series of "X-planes" in NASA's New Aviation Horizons initiative, with the first manned test flight scheduled for 2020.
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Airlander 10, the butt-shaped airship that just flew for the first time last week, crashed earlier this morning on its second test flight, damaging the cockpit.
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"Great progress in our test flight program means that we are on track for our beautiful spaceship to begin commercial service," Branson said in a statement Tuesday.
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Deadlines kept floating, and with the fatal crash of a pilot in a 2014 Virgin test flight in California, there's no firm date for the first flight.
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Once completed, a Qantas test flight flying from New York to Sydney this weekend, will be the longest non-stop flight ever undertaken by a commercial airline.
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The Air Force in June flew its first test flight of the AGM-183A Air Launched Rapid Response Weapon, a hypersonic weapon known as ARRW (pronounced "Arrow").
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That test flight will now include one Boeing astronaut and two NASA astronauts, though the agency said the money went toward more than just buying one seat.
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The first crewless test flight of Boeing's capsule, Starliner, could occur as soon as next month and a first crewed flight could also take off this year.
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Bell's V-280 Valor has completed its first test flight successfully, while the SB-1 Defiant is expected to make its first flight test sometime in 2018.
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While the Heavy uses many of the same components as the Falcon 9, Mr. Musk had cautioned that failures during a test flight would not be surprising.
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The key unknown remains whether NASA will require Boeing redo the orbital test flight, as the company previously expected its next flight would have astronauts on board.
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During a test flight on January 25, it broke altitude and duration records, rising to 2.56 meters (~893 feet) and floating for an hour and 21 minutes.
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Musk expects to send Behnken and Hurley to the International Space Station on Crew Dragon's first manned test flight — called Demo-2 — in April, May, or June.
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The company is planning the rocket's first test flight for early next year, with the system's Boeing 747-400 launcher in its final stages of flight testing.
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It's been designed to carry astronauts to the space station as early as June or July, but no humans were on board for this historic test flight.
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On August 7, 2012, it made its first test flight, at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, in Lakehurst, New Jersey, the same field where the Hindenburg exploded.
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According to reports, Russian forces are still attempting to recover a nuclear-powered cruise missile that failed on a test flight somewhere in the Arctic last year.
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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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Harbour Air&aposs ePlane, the world&aposs first all-electric commercial aircraft, completed a test flight over the Fraser River in Richmond, British Columbia on December 10.
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The MH-139A Grey Wolf, the helicopter that will replace the Air Force's UH-1N Huey fleet, conducted its first combined test flight in Florida this month.
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The administration envisioned a SLS/Orion test flight around the moon without a crew in 2020, followed by a fly-around mission with a crew in 2023.
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The images depict two T-23 supersonic jets from the US Air Force during a test flight from the research center at Edwards Air Force Base in California.
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Both companies must complete a successful, uncrewed test flight to dock with the ISS first, with SpaceX's scheduled for no earlier than February and Boeing's scheduled for March.
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The FAA said last week that the test flight could be done in the next few weeks, but later said it is not operating on a fixed timeline.
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"We are excited to see the Electron rocket arrive at the Mahia launch complex for its first test flight," Bob Richards, CEO of Moon Express, tells The Verge.
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NASA is investigating a previously undisclosed software issue that arose during Boeing's test flight of a spacecraft designed to shuttle astronauts to and from the International Space Station.
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Last month, a company official said bad weather held up plans for the third C919 test flight, which had initially been expected within two weeks of the second.
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Now, after a crewed SpaceShipTwo test flight to space in December 2018 and another carrying a test passenger in February, Virgin Galactic is inching closer to commercial flight.
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Read Boeing's full statement here: Boeing has completed development of the updated software for the 737 MAX, along with associated simulator testing and the company's engineering test flight.
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Driving the news: On Sunday, Virgin Orbit — which was spun off from Richard Branson's human spaceflight-focused Virgin Galactic — conducted another test flight of its "Cosmic Girl" plane.
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Virgin Galactic is celebrating the third successful supersonic test flight of VSS Unity, the passenger spacecraft it intends to make available for space tourism in the near future.
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Boeing has yet to formally submit the upgrades to the FAA for approval but could do as early as this week once it completes a special test flight.
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NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center is in the process of uploading hundreds of videos of rare test flight, launch, and landing footage to YouTube and the agency's website.
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That test flight — appropriately dubbed It's a Test — made it to space, though the rocket didn't achieve orbit, due to a glitch in communication equipment on the ground.
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Originally, Rocket Lab had planned to do a third test flight, but it decided that it had gathered enough data with its two tests to start business operations.
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NASA says it has an "aggressive" internal goal of launching the first crewed test flight in 2021, but the official date is scheduled for no later than 2023.
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The C919 narrowbody jet is currently undergoing rigorous testing and is the first large-scale Chinese civilian plane developed in accordance with international test-flight standards, Lu said.
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In Monday's test flight, the device hovered upward about 200 meters and whirred for about five minutes over a windswept patch of sand astride the emirate's Gulf coast.
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SpaceX is getting ready for its first ever test flight of the Falcon Heavy, its heavy-duty rocket aimed at propelling large cargo loads into low Earth orbit.
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The 92-metre Airlander 10 made its first test flight earlier this month and the company had posted photographs of it up in the air before Wednesday's incident.
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"It's not required to have both IDAs on orbit prior to the launch of the first Commercial Crew test flight," Shireman told The Verge during a press conference.
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Apollo 4, which launched on November 9, 1967, was the first uncrewed test flight of NASA's Saturn V rocket, which was developed to bring astronauts to the moon.
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A Swiss F-5E air force demonstration jet collided with another plane in midair on Thursday and crashed in a lake during a test flight before the show.
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Two years ago, Virgin Galactic's SpaceshipTwo, the space plane it hoped to use to send tourists into space, failed on a test flight and crashed in the desert.
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Boeing said on Wednesday it was making "steady progress" on the path to certifying the software update and had made the final test flight before a certification flight.
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This may force SpaceX to focus on its flight for NASA until enough resources are freed up in Boca Chica to focus on the planned test flight there.
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I recently took a test flight on an Embraer Phenom 300, one of the best-selling business jets in the world, operated by Airshare, a fractional ownership company.
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Local officials said the chopper crash-landed at Olympia Regional Airport after experiencing a mechanical issue shortly after taking off on a test flight just before 10 a.m.
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Development of the Falcon Heavy rocket, for example, which finally made a maiden test flight in February, took more than four years longer than Mr. Musk had anticipated.
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Boeing has said it plans to conduct a certification test flight in the "September time frame" but Muilenburg did not give a specific date when asked on Wednesday.
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Boeing has said it plans to conduct a certification test flight in the "September time frame" but Muilenburg did not give a specific date when asked on Wednesday.
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Separately, SpaceX also filed paperwork with the FCC seeking permission for communications for a 230km (65,000 foot) test flight with a start date beginning as early as March.
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The Amazon CEO posted a video of himself on Thursday reading kids&apos postcards sent to him on a test flight for Blue Origin&aposs space tourism rocket.
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The company recently conducted a dry run of the certification test flight that would set in motion the process of bringing the plane back to service, he said.
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The uncrewed test flight, which came after years of delays and setbacks, was intended to be the final major test before it was finally ready to fly humans.
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Musk said that the next Starship test flight after the sub-orbital trip for Mk1 might be an orbital launch with the full Super Heavy booster and Mk20193.
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The companies have already been collaborating on a biofuel produced in Abu Dhabi from plants grown in saltwater, completing a successful test flight with the fuel in January.
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SpaceX is also on tap to perform a test flight with its own passenger spacecraft, the Crew Dragon, to demonstrate the capabilities of the vehicle's emergency escape system.
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Starliner didn't have anyone on board, but was instead on its first test flight intended to launch, dock with the International Space Station and then return to Earth.
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The successful test flight even included a nod to Elon Musk's other company: The payload included a cherry-red Tesla Roadster, with a mannequin ("Starman") at the wheel.
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For the sake of avoiding more embarrassing delays for Orion's upcoming test flight, however, Bridenstine said NASA would spend two weeks reviewing other launch options for that mission.
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Now, after a crewed SpaceShipTwo test flight to space in December 2018 and another carrying a test passenger in February, Virgin Galactic is inching closer to commercial flight.
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NASA engineer Dale Reed recorded this video of a test flight of the M53-F1, also known as the "flying bathtub," in 1962 with his home movie camera.
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Facebook first announced the drone almost two years ago and just completed its second test flight at about 5 percent of the minimum elevation it hopes to achieve.
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The large drone — named Aquila — had a successful test flight and ended up remaining in the sky for 603 minutes, which Facebook said was three-times longer than planned.
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According to a news release from the aircraft's developer, Hybrid Air Vehicles (HAV), the Airlander 10 was repaired after it crashed during its second test flight at Cardington Airfield.
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And that was even before the company's ambitious plans were derailed by the VSS Enterprise test flight crash in 2014 that killed a pilot and injured a co-pilot.
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The company has yet to launch a test flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket which would be used for these kinds of heavy-lift, long-distance missions to Mars.
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In March, SpaceX successfully launched a Crew Dragon capsule for the first time on the company's Falcon 9 rocket, sending the spacecraft on a test flight to the ISS.
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Boeing is reviewing the software for its Starliner spacecraft after the first test flight in December raised concerns for a potentially disastrous outcome for the newly-designed space capsule.
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CRASH TESTS LOYALTY The biggest test of this carefully built customer community came in 2014, when a test flight crash killed the co-pilot and seriously injured the pilot.
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The capsule that was being tested on Saturday had already passed a huge milestone in March during its first test flight, which sent it to the International Space Station.
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Although official data from Thursday's test flight has not yet been made available, SpaceX said previously that it was intending to fly Starhopper about 65 feet in the air.
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The real advancement here is that even this test flight wasn't really possible as executed prior to the issuance of new rules by the FAA around commercial drone use.
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EM-1 would use SLS to send NASA's Orion Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle, a next-generation spacecraft for astronauts, on a multi-week unmanned test flight around the Moon.
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The company will launch its small Electron rocket with payloads from two paying satellite operators on board — just three months after completing a second test flight of the vehicle.
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Boeing now expects the vehicle to do its uncrewed test flight either later this year or in early 2019, according to a press call with reporters on Wednesday afternoon.
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Virgin Galactic sent three human beings on Unity for the first time in Friday's supersonic test flight, which reached three times the speed of sound on its way up.
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SpaceX launched its Crew Dragon capsule into space for the first time, in a key test flight to prove to NASA that astronauts will be safe on future flights.
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In 2015, the company announced that they performed the first test flight of the New Shepard space vehicle, revealing a full photo of the rocket for the first time.
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Boeing submitted its certification plan for the software update to the FAA in January and conducted a test flight with new software along with the FAA on March 12.
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Elon Musk's company just completed a historic test flight of its Crew Dragon capsule, which will be able to send as many as four astronauts to the space station.
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Aerion, chaired by billionaire businessman Robert Bass, plans for the 12-seat, $463 million jet to make its first test flight in 2023, with entry into service in 2025.
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Founder Jeff Bezos, who invests $1 billion each year into Blue Origin from the proceeds of selling his Amazon stock, announced the test flight on Friday in a tweet.
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Just like the last test flight of the New Shepard, Blue Origin will provide a live webcast of this event, according to an email update from CEO Jeff Bezos.
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A new report from Aviation Week reports that the US Air Force's secretive stealth drone — commonly referred to as the RQ-2427 — had its first test flight in 2427.
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The final aircraft in a British order for 160 Typhoons made its test flight recently and is due to be handed over to the RAF in the coming weeks.
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This isn't the first time that SpaceX has pushed back its planned Falcon Heavy debut launch: In fact, its initial proposed test flight was supposed to be in 2013.
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The King Air C-90 aircraft was on a test flight with two pilots and two engineers on board, the Directorate General of Civil Aviation said in a statement.
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The cabin manager — with whom I had been chatting about the Project Sunrise test flight — offered to give me a tour of the plane and show me the lounge.
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The Australian airline Qantas ran a test flight for its "Project Sunrise" initiative, a program to launch regular commercial service from Sydney to New York and Sydney to London.
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And undetected software errors in Starliner, a Boeing spacecraft designed to carry NASA astronauts, could have potentially led a December test flight to end in disaster, a review found.
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Dr. Schilling said the smaller version appeared in a military parade last month, adding that it had been expected to have roughly the same performance as Sunday's test flight.
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Boeing suffered a setback when its Starliner spacecraft malfunctioned during an orbital test flight in December, and it's not clear when the vehicle will be ready for crewed missions.
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SpaceX — which has already done its uncrewed test flight to the station — is expected to prove out the Crew Dragon's abort system during an in-flight test in January.
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Boeing said in an earnings release last month that the company has already set aside $410 million to pay for a second test flight in case NASA orders one.
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In a press release, Ted Ingling, the general manager of the GE9X program, said the test flight was "picture perfect," adding that final engine certification is expected in 2019.
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SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule completed its uncrewed test flight earlier this year, but still must pass another test of the capsule's emergency abort system before it's ready to fly.
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Stratolaunch, which was founded by the late Paul Allen and sent the largest plane in the history of the world on a test flight last spring, has been sold.
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SpaceX is expected to launch its first test flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket (the company's most powerful rocket yet) at some point near the end of the summer.
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He noted that if astronauts had been on board this test flight they may have been able to override the faulty autonomous system and taken manual control of spacecraft.
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On the test flight, the reusable Starship rocket will aim to reach an altitude of more than 12 miles above the Earth's surface before returning safely to the ground.
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However, no one could say whether or not the company&aposs next mission would be a redo of the uncrewed test flight or the first with astronauts riding inside.
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And on August 28, it completed its first successful test flight with a 1,125-pound VTOL named Chapparel that flew up 10 feet for 64 seconds before safely landing.
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According to NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine, it's still too early to tell if the company will be expected to launch another uncrewed test flight ahead of a crewed launch.
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The Orion has been launched once already on top of a Delta 4 Heavy, in 2014, for a crewless test flight, but that did not go to the moon.
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In addition to a successful test flight, Wiegand says Lilium has "built up a lot on the company side," in terms of hiring and processes and growing the engineering team.
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It recently completed an untethered "hop" low-altitude test flight of StarHopper, a sub-scale demonstration version of the Starship design meant to help it test that craft's Raptor engine.
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The huge aircraft's first test flight was originally scheduled for last Sunday, but was scrapped due to technical issues that couldn't be resolved in time for safe flying before sunset.
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As for the rocket portion itself, which will also be reusable, it's still about one to two years away from an initial test flight, according to the Wall Street Journal.
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The company's specially modified 747-17486843 carried a 70-foot-long rocket as part of a test flight proving that the carbon-fiber, two-stage rocket works with the plane.
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On Monday, Hybrid Air Vehicles said it had made a number of improvements to prevent a repeat of the crash, and the Airlander 10 is ready for another test flight.
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For example, NASA's powerful new rocket — Space Launch System, or SLS — was supposed to be ready for a test flight in 2017 but is now delayed until at least 2020.
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The launch of the capsule and rocket was the eighth overall test flight of New Shepard, and the second time this rocket and capsule have flown to suborbital space together.
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After the groundbreaking test flight, we caught up with Moses to learn about what it was like to see the curvature of the Earth and experience weightlessness in actual space.
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A test flight of the Musudan was long overdue, but repeating the attempt five times so soon after the first catastrophic failure can only be described as foolish and desperate.
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A demo test flight of SpaceX's Dragon space capsule, carrying two NASA astronauts, is scheduled for June, and the first crewed flight for Boeing is on the docket for August.
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The company slowly progressed through the vehicle's test flight program, first conducting unpowered glide flights with the spaceplane and then doing short powered flights by igniting VSS Unity's rocket engine.
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"We analyzed more than 25,000 channels of data from flight one, and we're eager to learn more from this test flight," Peter Beck, Rocket Lab's CEO, said in a statement.
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Boeing's first uncrewed test flight of its CST-100 Starliner spacecraft to the International Space Station is delayed until at least August, according to a NASA statement released on Wednesday.
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The plan, as of now, is to launch the vehicle, called Crew Dragon, for the first time on a test flight in December without passengers on board, according to Musk.
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Connectivity Lab inventions like the Terragraph wifi nodes and Project ARIES antenna, as well as parts for the Aquila solar-powered drone that just had its first successful test flight.
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Aside from being waterproof, "it has a GPS radio that's 20-times stronger than the GPS in the iPhone," said Luff as he prepared the Staaker for our test flight.
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LIFE ON MARS: AMAZING MODELS REVEAL WHAT IT COULD LOOK LIKE The first test flight for SpaceX and Boeing will be known as Demo-1 and Orbital Flight Test, respectively.
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Boeing's Starliner crew capsule is poised to launch its maiden unmanned mission in April ahead of an August test flight carrying U.S. astronauts Michael Fincke, Chris Ferguson and Nicole Mann.
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The 1.75-ton prototype is not expected to survive the test flight, but is expected to gather data on autonomous navigation, hypersonic speed, and reentry management, according to the ISRO.
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Hong Kong (CNN)China has defended conducting a test flight on a newly built airfield on reclaimed land in disputed waters in the South China Sea after objections from Vietnam.
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Blue Origin will intentionally crash-land its New Shepard rocket during an upcoming test flight, to see if the vehicle can still keep people safe when its parachutes don't work.
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LONDON (Reuters) - The world's longest aircraft, the Airlander 10 airship, has crash-landed after a test flight in Bedfordshire, central England, its British manufacturer Hybrid Air Vehicles said on Wednesday.
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Foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at the weekend that the test flight was intended to check whether the runway met civilian aviation standards and fell "completely within China's sovereignty".
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The photograph in this post shows a US Navy Lockheed Martin F-35C Lightning II of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 23 (VX-23) "Salty Dogs" during a test flight.
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Last year yielded some of the most promising results so far, as DOE research partner LanzaTech provided their ethanol-derived jet fuel for a 85033 test flight across the Atlantic.
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Click here to view original GIFThere will actually be two of those boosters attached to NASA's SLS rocket when it blasts off on its first scheduled test flight in 2018.
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After Jeff Bezos' space company Blue Origin successfully launched — and landed — its highest test flight of a reusable rocket yet on Sunday, the billionaire tweeted out congratulations to the company.
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Also in 21625, the very first "Apple II" computers were sold, NASA completed its first test flight of the space shuttle, and the very first "Star Wars" movie was released.
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The company shared footage of a recent test flight over Lake Pleasant in Arizona with CNBC where its drones took off from and landed on platforms attached to moving boats.
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StarTiger Dropter Terrestrial Landing System Credit: DFKI Video Last but not least, bear witness to the test flight of the Center's StarTiger terrestrial landing system, complete with an epic score.
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Now the company has partially lifted the lid on the secret project to reveal that the drone will take off for a test flight for the first time in 2026.
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The uncrewed flight was to have been the last major milestone before NASA agreed to putting its astronauts aboard the craft, but now another test flight may be needed. 8.
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In less than two hours, it could be fueled and ready for launch on a test flight into the Pacific Ocean or perhaps on a mission to strike American territory.
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DUBLIN, Jan 21 (Reuters) - Boeing plans to carry out the first test flight of its delayed 777X airplane later this week, said two people familiar with the matter on Tuesday.
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Given the approaching test flight, and barring significant new problems, airlines like Southwest, American and United may be able to stick to their plans to use the Max this summer.
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In the meantime, NASA is still trying to figure out if it wants Boeing to repeat the uncrewed test flight of Starliner since the vehicle never reached the space station.
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Starliner conducted an uncrewed test flight in December that was designed to show that the vehicle can safely dock with the International Space Station — but it didn't go as planned.
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The aerospace firm has announced two different vertical takeoff and landing, or VTOL, concepts and is reported to be planning an initial test flight before the end of the year.
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Mr Musk has said, perhaps optimistically, that a Starship prototype might be ready for a test flight all the way to orbit (albeit without its booster stage) within six months.
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This particular vehicle received the nickname "Calypso" from NASA astronaut Suni Williams, who is set to command the vehicle when it flies to space after the first crewed test flight.
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The FAA needs to sign off on the changes, review a test flight and review how pilots would interact with various cockpit alerts before the planes can fly commercially again.
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Officials said the cause of the accident was under investigation and declined to elaborate on the nature of the maintenance test flight or the age of the helicopter. Brig. Gen.
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If all goes to plan, a successful OFT will be a key milestone toward the target of flying a crewed test flight sometime during the first half of next year.
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More importantly, the Orbital Flight Test mission was designed to show NASA the spacecraft is safe to fly astronauts on a follow-up test flight, ostensibly planned for mid-2020.
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China has confirmed that a test flight by a civilian plane landed on an artificial island built in the Spratlys, the first time Beijing has used a runway in the area.
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NASA has hired U.S. firms Boeing and SpaceX to ferry more astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS), with the first crewed test flight set for as early as May 2018.
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After this test flight is complete, SpaceX is then set to do another flight test with the Crew Dragon in April, one that will try out the vehicle's emergency abort system.
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Boeing has yet to formally submit the upgrades to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration for approval but could do as early as this week once it completes a certification test flight.
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Later this month, the California-based company will try to pull off the inaugural test flight of its Electron rocket — a new launch vehicle capable of sending small satellites into orbit.
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During a test yesterday, SpaceX fired up the engines on one of its Falcon 9 rockets, a vehicle that will perform a crucial test flight for NASA in the months ahead.
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"We're thrilled with Electron's performance in the first test flight and now we're eager to test the next crucial step — payload deployment," Peter Beck, Rocket Lab's CEO, said in a statement.
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Image: NASA/Jeremy EggersNASA's most recent test flight of a super pressure balloon ended prematurely, but was still able to set some records along the way, including one for flight duration.
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It plans to start launching its small Electron rocket off this picturesque cliff in Mahia, about 350 miles southeast of Auckland, as early as Wednesday for its first-ever test flight.
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The rocket is slated to take off from the company's launch facility in New Zealand, and unlike the Electron's first test flight, we'll get to see this one go up live.
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Rocket Lab has cautioned that since this is a test flight, the company won't fly unless conditions are more than ideal for launch and only if the rocket is truly ready.
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New Shepard has launched 10 times, going past an altitude of 350,000 feet and coming back to land on its most recent test flight from the company's facility in West Texas.
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According to CNBC, Boeing's certification plan for the software update made it to the Federal Aviation Administration in January, and it made a test flight using that software on March 12.
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"Each test flight will provide data on the performance of the rockets, spacecraft, ground systems, and operations to ensure the systems are safe to fly astronauts," explained NASA in the statement.
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The company reported the airplane hit speeds of 189 mph and heights of 17,000 feet during its 150-minute test flight, before landing safely at the Mojave Air and Space Port.
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In a call, Lilium co-founder and CEO Daniel Wiegand described the test flight, which was a little behind schedule, as a huge step toward making urban air mobility a reality.
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It said it also was "exploring" the possibility of using the Comac C919, China's rival to the Airbus A320 and Boeing 737, which had its maiden test flight earlier this month.
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A test flight of the rocket, which will send people into orbit around the Moon, was originally planned for no later than August 2021; that was pushed back to April 2023.
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After a successful unmanned test flight in December 2136, the company is building the next version for a final unmanned flight in 353 that will go 235,230 miles past the moon.
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The uncrewed test flight is just one of many that Blue Origin plans to do with the New Shepard before the vehicle starts carrying paying customers to space sometime in 2018.
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Last week, a test-flight base opened in the commercial hub of Shanghai, which requires civilian drones to fly below 150 m (492 ft), the official news agency's Xinhuanet website said.
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On this day, Aquila would have its first functional test flight: the goal consisted of taking off safely, stabilizing in the air, and flying for at least 2000 minutes before landing.
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Hoping to see 'what lies beyond the next hill' On the first test flight, NASA intends to have the helicopter climb 10 feet into the air and hover for 30 seconds.
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The Australian airline Qantas is preparing to run its first nonstop test flight from New York City to Sydney, a route that no airline has been able to do without stopping.
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Virgin Galactic conducted its first test flight to reach more than 50 miles above Earth last month, high enough to earn commercial astronaut wings for the two pilots aboard the plane.
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On July 21st, I reported that Facebook had successfully completed the first test flight of Aquila, the drone with which it hopes to someday provide internet to much of the world.
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Two years later, Boeing reported that its protoype completed a successful test flight, though all it can do is take off vertically, hover, and land — horizontal flight hasn't been achieved yet.
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Qantas recently tested the new world's longest flight, a nearly 20-hour nonstop from New York to Sydney, Australia, using the Boeing 787-9 — Business Insider was aboard the test flight.
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Then we put everything back on it and do a test flight, ensuring that the aircraft is safe for flight and release back to the unit to put back in service.
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Mulholland said that, at this point, Boeing and NASA believe they have identified how to correct and prevent the two major software errors that were identified during the December test flight.
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Government officials believe that the plane may be cleared for a certification test flight as soon as this month, where the company must demonstrate the plane meets all the safety requirements.
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Second, documentation via an actual test flight or an appropriately equipped simulator that provides a clear checklist for use by pilots in an emergency with absolute certainty of a safe conclusion.
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Lilium Aviation dropped a video showing the successful test flight of its all-electric flying car—aka vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) prototype, per The Verge—and it's something to behold.
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Speaking to CNBC, Branson said the company will be in space "within weeks and not months," adding that Virgin Galactic is "more than tantalizingly close" to conducting its first suborbital test flight.
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The corrugated steel doors emblazoned with the letters "gravity" suddenly begin to slide open revealing Browning's fog-filled test-flight facility (the fog is generated by a smoke machine for dramatic effect).
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On February 22nd, Virgin Galactic's passenger spaceplane VSS Unity took to the skies above the Mojave Desert in California during a test flight, carrying a type of rider it's never had before.
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Earlier on Tuesday, FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said Boeing was making progress toward winning approval to resume flights but would need "several weeks" before a key certification test flight can take place.
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The last we heard from Lilium was in May of this year, when its unpiloted prototype finished its first test flight — basically taking off, hovering for a few seconds, and then landing.
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Just a day after launching to orbit, SpaceX's new Crew Dragon capsule automatically docked to a port on the International Space Station this morning — a critical part of its current test flight.
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Boeing is making "steady progress" on the path to certifying a software update to the 737 Max and has made the final test flight before certification, its chief executive said on Wednesday.
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NEW CHESSBOARD Scherer, whose father flew in the first ever Airbus test flight as an engineer, became head of sales in September after a career in sales contracts, strategy, defense and turboprops.
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And when later, a video of a SpaceX test flight receives the same reaction, it starts to sink in that this isn't so much a presentation as it is a pep rally.
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Musk believes it's "conceivable" that SpaceX could perform an orbital test flight of the BFR in three to four years, the CEO said in a press conference after the Falcon Heavy launch.
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"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.
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Three employees of Scaled Composites, which built the previous version of Virgin Galactic spacecraft, were killed in an July 2007 accident and a pilot was killed during an October 2014 test flight.
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The test flight from Shanghai lasted for 1 hour and 25 minutes, Commercial Aircraft Corp of China Ltd (COMAC) said on its official account on Weibo, China's Twitter-like social media platform.
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The startup managed its second test flight (via Space) for its Electron booster — this time making it all the way to orbit, where it deployed some of its first-ever customer payloads.
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SpaceX also plans this year to conduct the first test flight of the Falcon Heavy rocket, a larger variant of the Falcon 9 that has two additional boosters strapped to its sides.
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The company has been touting the Falcon Heavy's abilities since 2011, and earlier this year, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said we would finally get to see the first test flight in 2016.
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The first version of the SLS will debut with a smaller upper stage, or top portion of the vehicle; that's going to be used for the first uncrewed test flight in 2018.
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It was the first ever live broadcast of a Blue Origin test flight, showing the vehicle's ascent to the edge of space and then its subsequent fall and touchdown back on Earth.
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But Conyers added that the footage is proof that HiDyRS-X works, and the failures gives them things to work on as NASA moves towards the first SLS test flight in 2018.
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Private spaceflight company Blue Origin will attempt to launch and land its New Shepard rocket for the fourth time this weekend — and this time, we'll get to watch the test flight live.
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Private spaceflight company Blue Origin is planning to conduct the next test flight of its New Shepard rocket in early October — and it looks like it'll be the most explosive test yet.
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SpaceX tried to launch and fly its gleaming Starhopper rocket ship prototype into the skies above South Texas on Wednesday, but an issue with the vehicle's propellant cut short the test flight.
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During a stop at Teterboro Airport in New York recently, Airshare invited Business Insider to take a look at one of their newest Phenom 300s, and to take a short test flight.
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The Zero -- this one a Model 22 -- made its test flight Wednesday from Kanoya Air Base of Japan's Maritime Self-Defense Force, the same airfield where many Kamikaze pilots began their missions.
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In addition to the deployment of some of its first Starlink satellites following a demo launch last year, the company is also readying for hop tests of its Starship test-flight rocket.
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" And Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who has urged diplomacy over military action, said the November ICBM test flight indicated the North already has the ability to hit "everywhere in the world, basically.
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Last month, Boeing launched its capsule, called Starliner, in a test flight without astronauts, but a problem with the spacecraft's clock led to calling off a planned docking at the space station.
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On Thursday, Stephen Dickson, the administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, said a crucial test flight could occur in the coming weeks, setting in motion the complex process of ungrounding the plane.
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NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine said Friday that it's too soon to say whether NASA will require Boeing to conduct another uncrewed test flight before the vehicle is deemed ready to fly astronauts.
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The spacecraft launched an uncrewed test flight on Friday but had to abort its mission to dock with the International Space Station when it failed to put itself on the right trajectory.
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As for Boeing's CAV, it recently completed a three-minute test flight during which it demonstrated forward movement, after flying outdoors during a hover test for the first time earlier this year.
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VSS Unity, Virgin Galactic's rocket-powered plane, climbed to a record altitude of nearly 623 miles during a test flight on Friday, marking the second time Richard Branson's startup has reached space.
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It was the company's fifth supersonic-powered test flight, and it reached an altitude of nearly 20143 miles before returning safely to the Mojave Desert runway in California where it took off.
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British flying car startup Vertical Aerospace conducted a test flight of its electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle this summer, and plans to launch an intercity flying taxi service by 2022.
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Facebook's internet-beaming drone, a lightweight but wide solar-powered aircraft it's building to bring internet to rural places, completed its second test flight in the Arizona desert, the company announced Thursday.
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Virgin Galactic's original SpaceShipTwo vehicle broke apart during an October 2014 test flight that killed the co-pilot and seriously injured the pilot, in an accident that was ultimately attributed to pilot error.
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A rigorous testing and training program is underway to prepare for another test flight, but the company did not give a specific date, only saying that "achieving a safe flight is the priority".
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This morning, Jeff Bezos' spaceflight venture Blue Origin will send its suborbital rocket to space on its 11th test flight — part of the company's ongoing efforts to ready the vehicle for flying passengers.
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The 23-story-tall Heavy, which previously launched Musks cherry red Tesla roadster to space in a 53 debut test flight, blasted off from Floridas Kennedy Space Center carrying its first customer payload.
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The 23-story-tall Heavy, which previously launched Musks cherry red Tesla roadster to space in a 2018 debut test flight, blasted off from Floridas Kennedy Space Center carrying its first customer payload.
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"Once we have addressed the information requests from the FAA, we will be ready to schedule a certification test flight and submit final certification documentation," Boeing communications director Chaz Bickers said on Thursday.
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Afterward, NASA will evaluate how the Crew Dragon performed during this trip and eventually determine when to move forward with the next major test flight — one that will put two astronauts on board.
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While it was once estimated that the first crewed flights might happen in 2018, that year passed without even a first test flight from either of the contracted spacecraft providers, Boeing and SpaceX.
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Meanwhile, Reuters reported on Wednesday that Boeing will not conduct a certification test flight, a necessary step before formally requesting FAA approval of new software until July 8, under a best-case scenario.
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The successful test flight presages a new era of civilian space travel that could kick off as soon as next year, with Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic battling billionaire-backed ventures such as Amazon.
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Once the SLS and Orion fly on their first mission together — a test launch dubbed Artemis 215 — their next mission will carry crew on another test flight around the Moon called Artemis 21.6.
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"We'll get to one a month pretty quickly, but even the time it's taken us to go from a test flight to full commercial — from an industry standpoint — is very rapid," says Beck.
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The 23-story-tall Heavy, which previously launched Musk's cherry red Tesla roadster to space in a 2018 debut test flight, blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center carrying its first customer payload.
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In November the company and Russia's United Aircraft Corp unveiled a life-sized model of a proposed widebody longhaul jet, and in December COMAC'S C919 narrowbody passenger jet completed its first test flight.
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"This is what revolution looks like, and it's because of autonomy," John Langford, president and chief executive officer of Boeing subsidiary Aurora Flight Sciences, said in a news release announcing the test flight.
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This booster is part of the Space Launch System (SLS) mega rocket, which will be the most powerful system ever flown when it makes its first test flight expected in about two years.
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Hua Chunying, China's foreign ministry spokesperson, said Saturday that a civilian aircraft used by the Chinese government conducted a test flight at the new airport on Fiery Cross Reef in the Spratly Islands.
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The right wing of Facebook's solar-powered drone Aquila failed, causing a crash landing of its first test flight, according to a new report on the incident from the National Transportation Safety Board.
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The Musudan, which analysts say was devised to strike United States military bases in Guam with nuclear and chemical weapons, had not had a test flight until April, when North Korea launched three.
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The aim of the project — dubbed the E-Fan X — is to replace one of four gas turbine engines on a short-haul airliner with the motor for a test flight by 2020.
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Scientists say they have successfully carried out an initial test flight for an improved version of a nuclear bomb that has been in the U.S. arsenal for decades, The Associated Press reported Saturday.
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Last weekend, the Australian airline Qantas successfully completed its first test flight for its "Project Sunrise" initiative — a program to launch regular commercial service from Sydney to New York and Sydney to London.
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Boeing said last month it completed its software upgrade but was still working to address information requests from the FAA before it can schedule a certification test flight and submit final certification documentation.
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New York (CNN)Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, which was slated to begin flying NASA astronauts to the International Space Station this year, faces new questions about safety after a botched test flight in December.
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Three soldiers from the Minnesota National Guard were killed Thursday when the Black Hawk helicopter they were riding in for a routine maintenance test flight crashed in a farm field in central Minnesota.
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New York (CNN Business)Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, which is designed to carry NASA astronauts to the International Space Station, encountered a second, previously undisclosed, software issue during a botched test flight in December.
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New York (CNN Business)Boeing's Starliner spacecraft failed to put itself on the correct course during an uncrewed test flight on Friday and will not reach the International Space Station during this mission.
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Tuesday's test was of the same Hwasong-12 missile Kim had threatened to use on Guam, but the test flight took it in another direction, over northern Japan's Hokkaido and into the sea.
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The 23-story-tall Heavy, which previously launched Musk's cherry red Tesla roadster to space in a 53 debut test flight, blasted off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center carrying its first customer payload.
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The Thursday test marks the third rocket-powered test flight of the SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity craft, the second ship of its kind built after the first crashed in a fatal accident in 2014.
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That consideration was necessary, he said, because SLS was facing new hangups that threatened to upend plans to launch its Orion spacecraft on an uncrewed test flight around the Moon in mid-2020.
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Once the test flight was over, everyone was called to take a group photo and grab a drink; a plastic bucket sat at the entrance of the VoloPort, collecting rainwater from the roof.
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Arizona-based company World View successfully pulled off a five-day test flight of its specialized high-altitude balloon, which is designed to carry Earth-observing instruments to the upper edges of the atmosphere.
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The Airbus-built cargo and troop carrier crashed near Seville during a test flight in May 2015, killing four of the six crew, after three out of four engines froze minutes after take-off.
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The first test model of the 100-seat MRJ, which made its maiden test flight last November, arrived in late September in Moses Lake in the U.S. state of Washington for further test flights.
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The FAA could rule that more work is required after the test flight but even if it doesn't the FAA and other regulators still need to rule on pilot training and certify other documents.
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Earlier this week, Australia's flag carrier Qantas completed a nonstop test flight to Sydney from New York, researching what impact the world's longest potential commercial airplane journey would have on pilots, crew and passengers.
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A NASA safety panel revealed on Thursday that it is investigating a potentially "catastrophic" software error that occurred during a crucial test flight of Boeing's CST-100 Starliner, a spaceship designed to carry astronauts.
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The planemaker said it was in the process of submitting a plan on pilot training to the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and would work with the regulator to schedule its certification test flight.
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The world's largest booty-shaped aircraft, Airlander 10 — aka the "Flying Bum" — successfully completed a 180-minute test flight this month, almost a year after crashing at its Cardington Airfield base in Bedfordshire, England.
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Image: Adam Barry / GettyIf you were to read The Verge's glossy 2,000-word exclusive about Facebook's first test flight of an internet-beaming drone, you'd think the June 28th flight was an unmitigated success.
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That's exactly what the Hypersonic International Flight Research and Experimentation project has achieved with a test flight in Australia, demonstrating that scramjet technology can push the speed of a rocket up to Mach 7.5.
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The private space company has said it wants to send a Red Dragon space capsule to Mars in 2018 aboard one of its Falcon Heavy rockets, which hasn't actually yet had a test flight.
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Virgin Orbit plans to start its test flight of Cosmic Girl starting in the first half of 2018, the company says, and will run its inaugural test from California's Mojave Air and Space Port.
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The habitat will most likely consist of not just one big part, but multiple parts that will be assembled in space, first in a test flight around the Moon in the 2020s, Cursan said.
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The company plans up to six more flights of recycled boosters this year, including two that will strapped alongside a third, new first-stage for the debut test flight of a heavy-lift rocket.
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The fourth test flight of Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo took its test pilots to the very edge of space this morning, reaching just over 280 miles of altitude and a maximum speed of Mach 250.
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The next step is to complete pilot workload management testing and to have U.S. and international pilots conduct scenarios to determine training requirements before a key certification test flight, FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said.
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He estimates that the Space Launch System will be ready for a test flight by 2019 and that it will bring humans to Mars for the first time, ahead of Elon Musk and SpaceX.
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Read more: SpaceX just launched and landed a Mars spaceship prototype in a major test flight in TexasThe flight represents an important milestone, and Musk celebrated by sharing videos of the launch on Twitter.
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Park Geun-hye's election in 2012, along with North Korea's successful Musudan test flight in June 2016, seems to have finally pushed American and South Korean authorities to agree to the US THAAD deployment.
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But a "structural failure" that occurred on the Aquila's first test flight may be more serious than Facebook made it out to be: The National Transportation Safety Board is conducting an investigation, Bloomberg reports.
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The new issue means Boeing will not conduct a certification test flight until July 8 in a best-case scenario, the sources said, but one source cautioned it could face further delays beyond that.
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It was the first successful test flight for Elroy Air, a San Francisco-based startup that aims to put its heavy-lift cargo drones in the air, delivering larger-than-average payloads by 2020.
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The turboprop aircraft, a Beechcraft King Air C90, was out for a short test flight around the western suburbs of Mumbai before it crashed into a half-built structure near several high-rise buildings.
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The company announced the accomplishment of the three hour and 51 minute test flight over Washington state in a press release, calling the aircraft the largest and most fuel efficient twin-engine commercial jet.
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" Over all, Dr. Schilling concluded, it seems possible that North Korea with this single test flight of the new missile might already have moved "closer to an operational ICBM than had been previously estimated.
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The next step is to complete pilot workload management testing and to have U.S. and international pilots conduct scenarios to determine training requirements before a key certification test flight, FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said.
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In January, Boeing announced that it found a problem in the startup process of the plane's flight computers, which was serious enough for the company and the FAA to delay a key test flight.
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The crewless test flight was intended to meet up with the International Space Station, but the spacecraft's clock was somehow set to the wrong time and the capsule was pushed into the wrong orbit.
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However, government officials believe the plane may be cleared for a certification test flight as soon as by the end of January, where Boeing would have to demonstrate the May meets all safety requirements.
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The successful launch of SpaceX's Falcon Heavy rocket had the entire space industry watching on Tuesday, and the Department of Defense was chief among those following the test flight, a former official told CNBC.
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Original Story: After a seven-month hiatus from spaceflight, private aerospace company Blue Origin is set to fly its New Shepard rocket to space and back again on the company's 103th overall test flight.
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In fact, the vehicle that's supposed to fly people — the fourth iteration of the rocket — is already at Blue Origin's test flight facility in West Texas, where the company performs its New Shepard launches.
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Not only was this the first test flight of Boeing’s ship, but it was a major step in NASA's plan to let private companies take over manned space flights to the ISS.
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LauncherOne attached to Cosmic GirlPhoto: Virgin OrbitA Virgin Orbit plane took off with a rocket under its wing on Sunday, marking a successful test flight for the company that hopes to provide satellite-launching services.
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The head of the Federal Aviation Administration said last week that a critical test flight could happen in the next few weeks, setting in motion the complex process of clearing the plane's return to service.
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Boeing is making "steady progress" on the path to certifying a software update to the grounded 737 Max and has made the final test flight before a certification flight, its chief executive said on Wednesday.
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SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's home-built C2919 passenger jet completed its third test flight on Friday, its manufacturer said, bringing the Asian nation a step closer to its goal of becoming a global civil aerospace player.
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Irkut still needs to take its jet on a test-flight to get approved and it said it hopes to be able to deliver the planes at the end of 2018 or beginning of 2019.
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SpaceX has completed a second low-altitude test flight of its "Starhopper" demonstration prototype, which is being used to test technologies that will be used to build the full-scale next-generation SpaceX "Starship" spacecraft.
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It's an important step for Virgin Galactic which was rocked by the 2014 incident when an earlier version of SpaceShipTwo was destroyed during a test flight caused by a mistake by one of the pilots.
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Orion's first trip to space is planned for 2020/2021, and it's to be an uncrewed test flight in which the module will spend 10 days in orbit around the moon before returning to Earth.
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A SpaceX Falcon 83 rocket with a demo Crew Dragon spacecraft lifts off from pad 39A on an uncrewed test flight to the International Space Station at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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He has floated a date of 2020 for the Starship's first test flight, and though that timetable may not be realistic, he has already sold a seat on the Starship to Japanese billionaire Yusaku Maezawa.
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NASA said SpaceX plans to launch its Demo-1 test flight, which will not have crew, on March 2, while Boeing does not expect to conduct its unmanned flight test before April at the earliest.
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The company has carried out an abort test of its Crew Dragon capsule, and plans to make an uncrewed flight in the first half of 2017, followed by a crewed test flight later that year.
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Co-pilot Michael Alsbury — who died in the accident — unlocked the feathering system too early during the test flight, when the vehicle was traveling at Mach 0.92 instead of the intended speed of Mach 1.4.
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China expects the J-20 to help narrow the military gap with the United States, and its confirmation of the aircraft's first test flight coincided with a visit to Beijing in 2011 by then-U.
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Chinese foreign ministry officials confirmed on Saturday that a test flight by a civilian plane landed on an artificial island built in the Spratlys, the first time Beijing has used a runway in the area.
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The first version was destroyed during a powered test flight on Halloween of 2014; a mistake by one of the two pilots caused the wings to shift too early, which made the vehicle break apart.
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The narrow-body C919, which will compete with Boeing Co's 737 and the Airbus SE A320, completed its second test flight on Thursday, almost five months after its maiden flight earlier this year in May.
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New York (CNN Business)Jeff Bezos' rocket company, Blue Origin, completed a 10th test flight Wednesday of its suborbital launch vehicle and capsule, indicating the company is getting closer to launching paying customers into space.
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Since it was a test flight, Mr. Musk put the Tesla on board, instead of heavy and boring concrete, and sent it on an elliptical orbit around the sun that would extend beyond Mars's orbit.
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On the test flight for the Starliner will be: Eric Boe, a former space shuttle pilot who retired from the Air Force; Christopher Ferguson, a Boeing astronaut who left NASA in 2011; and Lt. Col.
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In the early stages of that crucial test flight on December 20, the Starliner's engines were supposed to fire automatically, setting the ship on a course toward the International Space Station — but they never did.
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In December, Blue Origin, the rocket company started by Jeff Bezos, the chief executive of Amazon, conducted a 12th test flight of its suborbital New Shepard spacecraft, but has not yet put any people aboard.
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Although there weren't any people aboard this test flight, Blue Origin's test dummy, Mannequin Skywalker, was strapped in a chair to measure the gravitation forces a real body might experience during a somewhat violent abort.
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New York (CNN Business)Blue Origin, the stealthy company founded by Amazon's billionaire founder Jeff Bezos, just launched another test flight of its tourism rocket as it steadily inches toward sending paying customers into space.
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In terms of testing and development timelines, Musk said that the Starship Mk220 he presented the plan in front of at Boca Chica should have its first test flight in just one to two months.
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If this test and Crew Dragon's final certification process are successful, NASA expects SpaceX to fly two of its astronauts on a test flight to the space station between April and June of this year.
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This launch is the penultimate test flight for Boeing as part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program, a multiyear plan to develop new US-made vehicles to take NASA astronauts to and from the space station.
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SpaceX's Crew Dragon: Pristine test flight, then explosion SpaceX and Boeing spent a decade building two spacecraft capable of ferrying astronauts to and from the International Space Station for NASA's $8 billion Commercial Crew program.
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In the coming weeks, the F.A.A. is expected to take a Max outfitted with the new software for a test flight, setting in motion a process that could have the Max flying again in September.
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Boeing has not yet conducted a certification test flight that is required before it can submit the software fix and training upgrade for approval, but has been discussing proposed changes with airlines and the FAA.
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North Korea fired an unidentified projectile from its capital Pyongyang that flew over Japan before plunging into the northern Pacific Ocean, officials said Tuesday, an especially aggressive test-flight that will rattle an already anxious region.
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This is what it looks like when a massive oversized plane takes to the sky: Airbus' aptly named BelugaXL plane took off on a test flight Thursday morning at the Toulouse-Blagnac Airport in France. LOWPASS!
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Specifically, the StarHopper sub-scale demonstration and testing craft it's using to work on the Startship's propulsion system failed to undertake its first untethered test flight at a testing site in Boca Chica Beach in Texas.
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This puts SpaceX and rival Boeing in closer proximity in terms of crewed commercial mission launches, with the latter aiming for a first test flight in June 2018, and a crewed test to follow in August.
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The landing marks the third successful touchdown of this particular rocket, and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk noted that it would fly again in April, performing a key test flight of the company's new Crew Dragon capsule.
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Space startup Vector, for instance, claims that it's nearly ready for its first test flight to orbit out of Alaska, but it says the FAA cannot complete its launch license for the mission during the shutdown.
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