For Mr. Branson, the test flight met its most important goal: validating the rocket ship's design.
The FAA also will permit Boeing to begin test flight activities relating to the battery issue.
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Masten announced last week it would make a test flight from Cape Canaveral, Fla.
We'll start with the good: Virgin Galactic's SpaceShipTwo had its first successful test flight on Monday.
In September, an unmanned test flight blew up at 45, 000 feet over tiny Van Horn, Texas.
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There is talk of a test flight to the ISS, using its Cygnus spacecraft, sometime next year.
Macworld has taken the new MBPs for a test flight and, guess what, Apple's been pulling our legs.
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Boeing has said that a test flight to check the 787 Dreamliner's new battery system "went according to plan".
The first test flight in Japan was Sunday, All Nippon Airways officials said.
The astronaut vehicle itself, known as Orion, is nearing its first test flight.
Virgin Atlantic President Richard Branson said the test flight would help the airline to use clean fuel sooner than expected.
SpaceShipTwo, its inventively named commercial vehicle designed to take (well-moneyed) civilians into outerspace, has just completed its first rocket-powered test flight.
The Air Force is also testing jet engines using biofuels and had the first successful biofuel-powered test flight just last week.
If a glitch arises during the mission and the hookup is called off, another test flight would have to be scheduled.
In 2010, fire caused a 787 test flight to lose primary electrical power while flying from Yuma, Arizona, to Laredo, Texas.
There has been one hiccup: In August, an unmanned spacecraft veered out of control during a test flight and had to be destroyed.
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The firm said it would analyse the data and prepare for another test flight aimed at demonstrating the system to regulators in "coming days".
Thursday's flawed flight was the first time an Ariane rocket had malfunctioned since Ariane-5's maiden test flight exploded 37 seconds after launch in 1996.
Filton Airport had been in operation for more than 100 years and saw the first UK test flight of the Concorde prototype in 1969.
Like Amazon, the company is secretive, but last September it revealed that it had lost an unmanned prototype vehicle during a short-hop test flight.
It is to serve as the test flight vehicle for a new series of commercial passenger spaceliners that will be operated by Virgin Atlantic Airways.
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Filton was in operation for more than 100 years and was the site of the first UK test flight of the Concorde prototype in 1969.
Saturday's test flight is the latest step to resuming commercial flights.
If the project is approved, engineers would hope to have the propulsion unit, or service module, ready to fly on the American rocket's first test flight.
It should be noted also that the 2017 maiden test flight will use a "lite" variant, one capable of lifting about 70 tonnes to low-Earth orbit.
It was always going to be a test flight - the first of two that have been planned to bring the shuttle programme back on track.
In previous incidents, one of the 787 test flight aircraft lost primary electrical power in 2010 and was forced to make an emergency landing in Texas.
Although he has flown HB-SIA in a simulator, Mr Borschberg says he will not really know how it performs until the first test flight later this year.
But on Tuesday June 23rd Boeing's share price fell by almost 9% when the company announced that because of structural flaws the test flight would be delayed.
Speaking of sun-powered planes, the Solar Impulse just made its final test flight around the San Francisco Bay Area before embarking on a cross-country voyage next week.
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