Sentence examples for launch tests from inspiring English sources

In late 2014, US-based XCOR plans to launch tests of its two-person Lynx spacecraft, which will run for up to 18 months.

The company has plans to launch tests of two different vaccines before the end of the year, ScienceNOW has learned.

SpaceX's crewed testing date has also been pushed back to 2018 from an initial target of 2017, and Boeing's CST-100 Starliner is also looking at 2018 as the timeframe to begin crewed launch tests.

Musk said that they were reluctant to file suit, but that the move is the last one available to them after trying to pursue other options, including complying with launch tests ordered by the Air Force before it entered into a sole-source procurement agreement that locks out private companies, which was entered into without justification, according to Musk.

The Pentagon has no plans to launch test rockets from the base, because it is close to populated areas.

The main glitch from an otherwise solid Ares launch test the other day was the parachute.

The rocket ship will launch test runs this year and offer commercial space tours as early as 2012.

Although take-off from a runway is possible, balloons provide a safer way to launch test flights of the 12-kilogram plane.

It's the first real launch test for a new generation of manned space vehicles.

"Many of the safety issues that we will hear about today arose not from the novelty of a space launch test flight, but from human factors that were already known elsewhere in transportation," Hart said.

Last week at their headquarters on Nasa's campus, Made In Space engineers tinkered with a sealed 3D printer in a dust-free clean room, preparing the models for further pre-launch tests.