News tagged with flight test

Rocket test will carry Purdue experiment

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Nov 30, 2009 | 3 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Purdue University researchers are designing and building an experiment that will operate during a test flight of a new type of reusable rocket to be launched by aerospace company Blue Origin LLC.

2 parachutes malfunctioned in NASA test flight

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 30, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 1

(AP) -- Two of three parachutes malfunctioned in the test flight of a prototype moon rocket earlier this week, causing major damage to the booster, NASA said Friday.

Panel says NASA should skip moon, fly elsewhere (Update)

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Oct 23, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (12) | 23

(AP) -- NASA needs to make a major detour on its grand plans to return astronauts to the moon, a special independent panel told the White House Thursday.

NASA Completes Assembly of Ares I-X Test Rocket

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 17, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- For the first time in more than a quarter-century a new space vehicle stands ready in NASA's Kennedy Space Center Vehicle Assembly Building. The Ares I-X rocket, its simulated crew module ...

NASA Launches New Technology: An Inflatable Heat Shield

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Aug 17, 2009 | 4.2 / 5 (5) | 0

A successful NASA flight test Monday demonstrated how a spacecraft returning to Earth can use an inflatable heat shield to slow and protect itself as it enters the atmosphere at hypersonic speeds.

Final Piece Of NASA's Next-Generation Rocket Heads To Launch Site

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Mar 13, 2009 | not rated yet | 2

(PhysOrg.com) -- The final pieces of the Ares I-X flight test rocket left the Alliant Tech Systems manufacturing facility in Promontory, Utah, Thursday and began a 2,917-mile journey to its launch site at ...

New Balloon Successfully Flight-Tested Over Antarctica

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jan 09, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (4) | 4

(PhysOrg.com) -- NASA and the National Science Foundation have successfully launched and demonstrated a newly designed super pressure balloon prototype that may enable a new era of high-altitude scientific ...