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    30 May 2015. "European Experimental Re-Entry Testbed EXPERT: Qualification of Payloads for Flight" (PDF). European eXPErimental Re-entry Test-bed (EXPERT)...
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  • The Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV) is a European Space Agency (ESA) experimental suborbital re-entry vehicle. It was developed to serve as a prototype...
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  • testbed flown in 1998 Avatar space shuttle (DRDO-India) Boeing X-37 - A comparable United States Air Force spaceplane European eXPErimental Re-entry Testbed...
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  • home computer launched in the Brazilian market European eXPErimental Re-entry Testbed (EXPERT), a European Space Agency research programme Expert (magazine)...
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    ISBN 978-0-7546-1751-8. Lenorovitz, Jeffrey (23 June 1986). "Rafale Serves as Testbed for French Systems". Aviation Week & Space Technology. 124 (25). New York:...
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    Demonstrator in Europe Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle – Re-entry vehicle prototype by ESA for the development of the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle Space...
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    Tiangong-1 (section Re-entry)
    September 2011 to April 2018, serving as both a crewed laboratory and an experimental testbed to demonstrate orbital rendezvous and docking capabilities during...
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  • Space Rider (category Proposed European Space Agency spacecraft)
    in low Earth orbit with up to 600 kg of cargo. The re-entry module itself is a testbed for entry technologies as the IXV precursor was, so future improvements...
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    Hopper was a Future European Space Transportation Investigations Programme system study design A test project, the Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV),...
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    Channel-crossing aircraft of the summer of 1909. World War I served as a testbed for the use of the airplane as a weapon. Airplanes demonstrated their potential...
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    airliner flights using 100% sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). In 2022, the testbed is a 777-200ER. Boeing customers that have received the most 777s are Emirates...
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    replaced C-137 Stratoliner transports. F-22 Flying Testbed – The first 757 built was used in 1998 as a testbed for Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor avionics and...
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    ZeroAvia unveiled a DHC-8 Q400 donated by Alaska Airlines for use as a testbed aircraft. Distinguishing features of the Dash 8 design are the large T-tail...
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    and was first launched in 1992. In 2003, Columbia was destroyed during re-entry, leaving just three remaining orbiters. Discovery completed its final flight...
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    advantage in solving the problem of compressibility. At no time was this P-38E testbed airframe actually fitted with floats, and the idea was quickly abandoned...
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    lifetime are required. The Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV), a project initiated by ESA in 2009, is Europe's first lifting body reentry vehicle. Developed...
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    fly in the testbed aircraft to assess the passenger experience. McDonnell Douglas would begin installing one 578-DX demonstrator on its testbed in September...
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  • relatively light vehicle would re-enter the atmosphere and land on a runway, being protected from the conditions of re-entry by a ceramic matrix composite...
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    USS Ponce (LPD-15) (category Experimental ships of the United States)
    2012, but she gained a reprieve to be converted at short notice into a testbed for the Afloat Forward Staging Base (AFSB) concept, in which she would...
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    Boeing X-37 (category 2000s United States experimental aircraft)
    spaceplane in 1996, precursor to HOPE-X Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle (IXV), an ESA designed experimental reentry vehicle Shenlong (spacecraft), a Chinese...
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    European partners, now known as the European Participation Group, signed up for 348 aircraft at the Paris Air Show. This was split among the European...
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    marathon round-the-world promotional tour in December 1955. As a flying testbed, it was later modified with Avon RA29 engines fitted, as well as replacing...
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    Retrieved 26 February 2020 – via Twitter. "Rocket Lab Introduces Suborbital Testbed Rocket, Selected for Hypersonic Test Flights". www.businesswire.com. 17...
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    First Flights with Neil Armstrong (category A&E (TV network) original programming)
    balloons and gliders through war-time and mass commercial aviation, to experimental hypersonic flight at the edge of space. In the series, Neil Armstrong...
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    (Werknummer 550 002, bearing Stammkennzeichen of KM+TB) – documented use was as testbed for FuG 200 Hohentwiel ASV maritime patrol radar with flexible MG 131Z...
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    the USAF. The C-17 prototype "T-1" was retired in 2012 after use as a testbed by the USAF. In January 2010, the USAF announced the end of Boeing's performance-based...
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    missile. Testing of the prototype production versions, known as XRD (eXperimental Red Duster), moved to the Woomera range in South Australia in mid-1953...
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    Systems Laboratory Brooklyn Experimental Media Center (formerly Integrated Digital Media Institute) Wireless Implementation Testbed Laboratory Bio-interfacial...
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    appearance to NASA's Space Shuttle orbiter, and could similarly operate as a re-entry spaceplane, its final internal and functional design was different. For...
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    Museum of Flight. Retrieved: July 15, 2011. GE Aviation Donates 747-100 Testbed to Museum written by Australianaviation.Com.Au; November 19, 2018 "Historic...
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