Sentence examples for landing tests from inspiring English sources

Landing tests are currently under way for China's first independent mission to Mars in August 2020.

It was carried aloft by a converted Boeing 747 and used solely for glide-approach and landing tests.

The three remaining orbiters, as well as Enterprise (which did not fly into space but was only used in landing tests in 1977), were placed in museums across the United States.

Rather, on Aug. 12, 1977, he teamed up with Fred W. Haise, a civilian pilot, in the first flight of the shuttle Enterprise, a vehicle that was built purely for approach and landing tests and was incapable of flying into orbit.

"In the coming weeks, we'll be landing tests on our pre-release channels to see whether we can make things like the new tab page more useful, particularly for fresh installs of Firefox, where we don't yet have any recommendations to make from your history," said Nightingale.

This isn't the first time we've seen the GO Searcher; it got a bit of publicity late last year when it underwent some helicopter landing tests at sea.

Although Navy officials hailed the landing test as a success, it will take several more years before drones will operate normally on aircraft carriers.

Rival company Blue Origin, a space startup founded by Amazon chief executive Jeff Bezos, successfully completed a similar return rocket landing test last month, but the SpaceX feat was achieved during an actual commercial launch.

When I told colleagues my plan, they thought I was having an early mid-life crisis and that I'd be back at my desk in weeks.,I started practising the trick in the grounds of my house, using the swimming pool as a soft landing, testing the elasticity of the cannon mechanism and gradually building up my confidence.

The co-hosts noted that today's crew capsule landing test appeared to go well and looked exactly as expected.

That's important, because SpaceX said the landing test has a "low chance" of succeeding.