The first Cube Sat was created in the early 2000s, as a way of enabling Stanford graduate students to design, build, test and operate a spacecraft with similar capabilities to the USSR's Sputnik.

第一个立方卫星是在2000年代初创建的，目的是使斯坦福大学的研究生能够设计、建造、测试和操作具有与苏联人造卫星类似功能的航天器。

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The test was the first opportunity to exercise the two NPOESS-provided NPP ground segments with the NPP flight spacecraft.

该项测试是训练两个NPOESS提供的NPP地面部分和NPP飞行太空船的第一个机会。

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The third mission, called Orion I, is planned to launch an actual Orion spacecraft into orbit, but on an unmanned test flight, Diller said.

迪勒说，第三次任务是称为“猎户座i”(Orion i)的无人飞行试验，将发射真正的猎户座太空船到轨道上。

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At the end of the test flight,the speed of the Apollo spacecraft was increased to forty thousand kilometers an hour.

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This was the time for the crew to test all the spacecraft systems.

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But it could launch Apollo spacecraft on test flights around the Earth.

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We have a process during the assembly of the spacecraft called Assembly Test and Launch Operations (ATLO).

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Before leaving the space station, the Progress 47 spacecraft conducted a test of an upgraded docking system that Russia intends to use on future unmanned Progress and manned Soyuz vehicles.

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Within the next few weeks, the Federal Aviation Administration will issue its regulations surrounding the "experimental permits" that private spacecraft owners will use to test their rockets.

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