Tag: Dryden

Dream Chaser Heads to Dryden for Start of Free Flight Tests
By 2013.05.14 0 Comments Read More →

Dream Chaser Heads to Dryden for Start of Free Flight Tests

Following a path taken in 1977 by the Space Shuttle Enterprise which saw the orbiter’s first ever free fly flight over NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center at Edwards Air Force Base, Ca. Sierra Nevada Corporation is preparing to embark on a series of tests of its own Dream Chaser space plane as a part of […]

Posted in: COTS/Commercial Crew, Launch Vehicle Development
When Xombies Attack
By 2013.04.03 0 Comments Read More →

When Xombies Attack

While SpaceX has been getting the lion’s share of RLV publicity lately with an increasingly ambitious set of tests for the Grasshopper test vehicle, (and a posthumous nod from Johnny Cash) it is by no means the only company pushing the envelope of closed loop control.  Working with NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center and Draper Labs,  Masten Space System’s Xombie  technology […]

Posted in: Launch Vehicle Development, NASA
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