Sentence examples for contracted missions from inspiring English sources

A second firm, SpaceX of California, is further along in its development schedule, having already completed its test flights and begun commercially contracted missions to the ISS.

"So we've achieved our signed, dated and contracted mission.

What could be the first of the 12 contracted servicing missions is set for September.

These are similar to the Contracts missions, but they're hand designed by the team at IO Interactive.

So far none of the California-based company's rivals has managed to get a spacecraft to a launchpad, although Orbital Sciences Corporation, which also won Nasa "seed money" to develop cargo missions, has a test flight and berthing of its Cygnus craft scheduled for June and its first contracted supply mission later in the year.

As New York has done in so much of child welfare, children's mental health and developmental disabilities, residential services should be privatized and contracted to mission-driven nonprofit providers.

The spacewalks have delayed the first contracted cargo mission of aerospace firm Orbital Sciences' unmanned Cygnus spacecraft, which was scheduled to launch toward the orbiting lab on Thursday (Dec. 19).

So far, NASA has contracted for six missions with each company, with as many as four astronauts crewing each commercial spacecraft.

The California-based company SpaceX is planning to launch its Dragon capsule on an unmanned demonstration flight to the orbiting lab on May 19, to see if the vehicle is ready to begin a series of 12 contracted robotic cargo missions for NASA.

A space capsule has returned to Earth, ending the first commercially contracted re-supply mission to the International Space Station (ISS).

SpaceX attached landing legs to the first stage, decelerated it over the ocean and attempted a simulated landing over the water, following the ignition of the second stage on the third cargo resupply mission contracted to NASA.