But the size of test centre sites made it difficult to reach the speed without accelerating unsafely, he said.
Bigelow said the NASA brand will enable him to begin selling Kevlar habitats several times the size of the test module.
So far, the company has built a one-eighth-size prototype to test its design, which consists of a carbon-fibre keel, an envelope made from modern composite materials, half-a-dozen engines, a passenger compartment, and a specially lightened crane.
The Environment Agency has previously conducted a test measuring the size of wood chip particles in the air, which came back well within the UK limit.
BBC: Wood dust protesters march from Mossley to Plevin plant
So these are some the key points in the long process of design development of an HTC phone, where engineers and designers push each other to uncomfortable realm, before eventually delivering the near-final product to Peter Chou for his ultimate test on the size, feel in hand, feel in pocket and even the ringtones.
ENGADGET: HTC talks smartphone design: from inception to final product
Once a well is drilled, time is required to test the well and size the equipment for the production rates.
Still, that seven hours was better than many other full-size Android tablets have achieved in this test.
WSJ: The Powerful Prime Tablet Offers a Solid Keyboard, but Software Lags
Both are apparently headed to Europe some time next month, continuing to prove that Samsung are willing to test out any screen-size.
Lower start-up costs and less strict worker protection make it easier for innovative entrepreneurs in America to experiment on a small scale (hence the smaller size of new firms), to test the markets and to expand.
The Air Force Flight Test Center Museum features a full size replica of Yeager's plane (the real one hangs in the Smithsonian) and actual aircraft that made the region famous.
For example, before I started my company, Stratus Prep, I held focus groups to determine the market size and willingness to pay for industry-leading test prep and admissions counseling services.
FORBES: Step 3 for a Successful Startup: The Importance of Market Research
On Thursday, the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, a nonprofit financed by the insurance industry, released its 2012 list of vehicles with the best crash test ratings, and some in nearly every size category evaluated earned accolades.
In an "Immersion Lab" a few floors above the Business Sphere, employees test out working across time zones on wall-size video screens, and projecting business and social network information on man-size "holopanes" of glass.
Goldman has gone back to Facebook several times to test the company's interest in expanding the size of the sale, according to a person close to the matter, though the tone of the requests was informal.
By mid-2012, Starbucks will test some specialty stores on the West Coast, with the units about the size of its coffee shops.
The teacher rankings were based on student test scores that were adjusted for factors such as absenteeism, poverty, race and class size.
Symyx has developed a machine as big as a walk-in closet that can mix thimble-size quantities of chemicals and metals in parallel, in up to 1, 000 combinations per day, to test and create new materials.
FORBES: Upstart Symyx is shaking up the stodgy chemicals industry.
Even though Fannie and Freddie have always been considered, because of their size, to have implicit government support, the Treasury will not have wished to put confidence in that to the test at an auction.
应用推荐