SpaceX commenced the third integrated flight test of the upper stage of its Starship human landing system, or HLS, and accompanying Super Heavy booster. The test advances NASA’s preparations for the Artemis
MoreNASA and Boeing teams will be busy in the next couple of months preparing for the Starliner’s first crewed flight by mid-April 2024. The spacecraft will transport two NASA astronauts to the
MoreNASA has launched 14 Flight Opportunities research payloads aboard Blue Origin‘s New Shepard reusable suborbital rocket to help researchers test new technologies and materials for space applications. Among the payloads launched on
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A manikin used by NASA on the Artemis I flight test beyond the Moon will be used as a crash test dummy for the acceptance vibration test of the Artemis II Orion
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The U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory has concluded flight and environmental testing of Vita Inclinata’s anti-rotational rescue device to aid medical evacuations. The test’s finalization advances the Vita Rescue System – Litter
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A project team involving the U.S. Department of Defense and the Norwegian defense ministry conducted a test of a solid fuel ramjet vehicle in August and met Phase 1 objectives of the
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The U.S. Air Force has finished tests of the booster performance of a hypersonic weapon system that Lockheed Martin designed to help the service reach time-sensitive targets. USAF put the Air-Launched Rapid
MoreNASA’s Ingenuity Mars helicopter performed its initial flight on the Red Planet and flew for a total of 39.1 seconds at an altitude of 10 feet on Monday. A team at NASA’s
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Boeing has completed its formal requalification of the CST-100 Starliner’s flight software. With the qualification, Boeing will prepare for its next test flight. Boeing’s starliner will fly to the International Space Station
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Air Force Research Laboratory's (AFRL) Aerospace Systems Directorate demonstrated high-altitude precision airdrop during a test flight in November 2020. AFRL said Friday that it dropped bundles of the Optimized High Altitude Low
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