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In August 2014 Airbus became a partner in the project and the title sponsor. [4] [5] The Perlan 2 first flew in 2015 and started with flights in the U.S. Sierra Nevada mountain wave. The record setting and research flights started in southern Argentina in 2016, [6] by Einar Envoldson [2] or Perrenod using rebreather oxygen systems. [7]
The prototype lander is a "spacecraft" that is about 12 ft (3.7 m) in diameter, weighs approximately 2,400 lb (1,100 kg) and consists of four silver spherical propellant tanks topped by avionics boxes and a web of wires. [10] [11] [12] The project is trying out cost and time saving "lean development" engineering practices.
The name Trello is derived from the word trellis, which had been a code name for the project at its early stages. [10] Trello was released at a TechCrunch event by Fog Creek founder Joel Spolsky. [11] In September 2011 Wired magazine named the application one of "The 7 Coolest Startups You Haven't Heard of Yet". [12]
The ArduPilot project earliest roots date back to late 2007 [11] when Jordi Munoz, who later co-founded 3DRobotics with Chris Anderson, wrote an Arduino program (which he called "ArduCopter") to stabilize an RC Helicopter. In 2009 Munoz and Anderson released Ardupilot 1.0 [12] (flight controller software) along with a hardware board it could ...
In the 1990s, E Squadron was known to the wider military under its cover name, "Flight Concepts Division". It also had several cover and code names including "Latent Arrow". [7] By 2017, the organization's cover identity had been renamed to the Aviation Technology Office. [2] [14] [15]
On 2 September 2018, Jim Payne and Tim Gardner reached an altitude of 22,657 m (74,334 ft), [2] surpassing the 73,737 ft (22,475 m) attained by Jerry Hoyt on 17 April 1989 in a Lockheed U-2: the highest manned, heavier-than-air, subsonic flight. The Perlan 2 could fly to 90,000 ft (27,000 m) if conditions allow, higher than the manned level ...
Boeing Orbital Flight Test 2: Boeing Starliner Spacecraft 2: Uncrewed test flight. Suggested by Boeing and approved by NASA on April 6, 2020, due to the partial failure of Boe-OFT. A Boe-OFT 2 flight attempt was scrubbed before launch on August 3, 2021. It was rescheduled and took place successfully on May 19, 2022. [93] — 2022-05-19 Success
Skylon has its origins within a previous space development programme for an envisioned single-stage-to-orbit (SSTO) spaceplane, known as HOTOL. [14] In 1982, when work commenced on the HOTOL by several British companies, there was significant international interest to develop and produce viable reusable launch systems, perhaps the most high-profile of these being the NASA-operated Space Shuttle.