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And it suddenly dawned on me that this was not another earth orbital flight.
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Friday's events were the first time any of the capsule's 18 thrusters have malfunctioned during an orbital flight.
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It comes a week after Iran said it had successfully sent a monkey to an altitude of some 120 km (75 miles) for a sub-orbital flight.
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Technologies being tested in the program include advanced guidance, navigation and control, thermal protection systems, avionics, high temperature structures and seals, conformal reusable insulation, lightweight electromechanical flight systems, and autonomous orbital flight, reentry and landing.
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This appears to be the mindset of the Air Force regarding its experimental X-37B space plane, the billion-dollar robotic vehicle's orbital flight being extended beyond the 270 days it was initially designed for.
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President John F Kennedy's speech at Rice University in 1961, which laid down the gauntlet for a landing on the Moon, seemed a daunting challenge at the time, especially when the US had only sent Alan Shepard on a 20-minute sub-orbital flight.
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Orbital is due to begin flight tests of its orbital cargo delivery system later this year.
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Sierra Nevada Space Systems showed video of a successful flight of their Dream Catcher orbital space vehicle this year.
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For example, while moving Shenzhou-9 towards the space lab, the flight plan called for five orbital corrections, but the team on the ground in China was able to accomplish it in four.
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Nasa too will want to review the flight data before deciding whether to release more seed funding to Orbital, and to clear the company for a Cygnus freighter demonstration mission to the ISS. All being well, this next demonstration could occur in late June or early July.
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