{"id":70367,"date":"2016-08-02T00:09:03","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T16:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/sncs-dream-chaser-moves-toward-phase-two-flight-testing\/"},"modified":"2016-08-02T00:09:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T16:09:03","slug":"sncs-dream-chaser-moves-toward-phase-two-flight-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/sncs-dream-chaser-moves-toward-phase-two-flight-testing\/","title":{"rendered":"SNC\u2019s Dream Chaser Moves Toward Phase Two Flight Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>[Via Satellite 08-01-2016] <strong>Sierra Nevada Corporation<\/strong> (SNC)&nbsp;announced that its Dream Chaser full-scale flight test vehicle is ready for transportation to <strong>NASA<\/strong>\u2019s Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) in California for Phase Two flight tests in coordination with Edwards Air Force Base (AFB).&nbsp;Upon arrival, SNC will begin a series of pre-flight ground evaluations to verify and validate the vehicle\u2019s system and subsystem designs. After successful completion of all ground testing, Dream Chaser will begin its Phase Two free-flight testing. SNC is conducting these activities through a Space Act Agreement with NASA\u2019s Commercial Crew Program (CCP).<\/p>\n<p>SNC completed program upgrades and initial hardware testing with Dream Chaser at the Louisville, Colorado spacecraft assembly facility. Within the next several weeks, the same Dream Chaser vehicle that conducted Phase One flight testing will arrive at NASA\u2019s AFRC. There, the vehicle will undergo a series of tests building on those performed in Phase One, including tow-tests, pre-flight tests and ending with free-flight testing. SNC is also performing additional tests to validate the Dream Chaser\u2019s orbital flight software and calculate the spacecraft\u2019s handling and performance characteristics. Along with other pre-flight and post-flight evaluations, this data will be used to confirm Dream Chaser\u2019s subsonic aerodynamic properties as well as flight software and control system performance requirements. Additionally, the Phase Two flight test efforts will be highly supportive of, and executed in parallel with SNC\u2019s work for NASA\u2019s Commercial Resupply Services 2 (CRS 2) program.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Via Satellite 08-01-2016] Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC)&nbsp;announced that its Dream Chaser full-scale flight test vehicle is ready for transportation to NASA\u2019s Armstrong Flight Research Center (AFRC) in California for Phase Two flight tests in coordination with Edwards Air Force Base (AFB).&nbsp;Upon arrival, SNC will begin a series of pre-flight ground evaluations to verify and validate [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":66419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70367"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}