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Bombardier Powers On the First CSeries Flight Test Vehicle and Completes Wing Static Testing Required for First Flight
Build of flight test vehicles and safety-of-flight testing of on-the-ground integrated systems rig advancing to schedule
Bombardier Aerospace announced today that it has successfully completed the first full powering on of the main electrical distribution system on the first CSeries… Continue reading
Northrop Grumman Navigation System Integral to First Flight of nEUROn Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle Demonstrator
FREIBURG, Germany, Feb. 19, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC), in cooperation with Saab Aerosystems, has provided the attitude and heading reference system (AHRS) for the nEUROn Unmanned Combat Aerial Vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator, which recently completed a successful… Continue reading
Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne Powers Atlas V Upper Stage, Placing X-37B Test Vehicle into Orbit
The U.S. military’s unmanned X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle returned to orbit today on its third mission – thanks to the proven propulsion systems provided by Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne and RD AMROSS. The mission was launched from Cape Canaveral Air… Continue reading
Assembly of First Flight Test Vehicle for Bombardier CSeries Aircraft Underway
- Wings being joined to static test airframe
- A video is available at http://ow.ly/etTZp
Bombardier Aerospace announced today that the cockpit and all fuselage sections for the CSeries aircraft’s first flight test vehicle (FTV1) have arrived at Mirabel, Québec, and that… Continue reading
First flight test successful for U.S. Army Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle air vehicle
For more than 90 minutes, Aug. 7, the hybrid air vehicle known as the Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle stayed afloat above Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, N.J. The Long Endurance Multi-Intelligence Vehicle, or LEMV, like a blimp, is capable of carrying… Continue reading
Boeing Validates Performance of Crew Space Transportation Vehicle’s Attitude Control Engine
Boeing recently demonstrated the dual-role propulsion features and performance of the Orbital Maneuvering Attitude Control (OMAC) engine on the service module for the company’s Crew Space Transportation (CST)-100 spacecraft. The tests were conducted at NASA’s White Sands Test Facility, N.M.,… Continue reading
Surrogate UAV prepares for maiden flight in UK airspace
A Jetstream aircraft known as ‘The Flying Test Bed’, which can fly as if it were a UAV (Uninhabited Air Vehicle), is undergoing a series of flight trials in preparation for the first maiden flight of a surrogate UAV in… Continue reading
Europe’s third cargo vehicle docks with the Space Station
ESA’s ATV Edoardo Amaldi has completed the first stage of its docking with the Russian Zvezda module of the International Space Station.
The docking occurred smoothly when ATV’s docking probe was captured by Zvezda’s docking cone at 00:31 CEST (… Continue reading
Boeing Completes Preliminary Design Review of Commercial Crew Space Transportation Vehicle
HOUSTON, March 13, 2012 – Boeing [NYSE: BA] successfully completed a Preliminary Design Review (PDR) of the company’s integrated Commercial Crew Space Transportation system, which includes the Crew Space Transportation… Continue reading
Vega to fly ESA experimental reentry vehicle
The launch of ESA’s IXV Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle on Europe’s new Vega rocket is now in detailed planning, a major step towards the craft’s flight in 2014.
Launched into a suborbital trajectory from Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, IXV will… Continue reading
NASA Announces Key Decision For Next Deep Space Transportation System
WASHINGTON — NASA has reached an important milestone for the next U.S. transportation system that will carry humans into deep space. NASA Administrator Charles Bolden announced today that the system will be based on designs originally planned for the Orion… Continue reading
2nd Boeing-built Orbital Test Vehicle X-37B Begins Flight
Boeing [NYSE: BA]Â announced Saturday the successful launch of the second Boeing-built X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle (OTV) for the U.S. Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office (RCO). The OTV was launched on an Atlas V rocket into a low-Earth orbit today… Continue reading