Exploring The Frontier Of Space
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) today announced a design for an integrated system for human spaceflight that can be launched to low Earth orbit (LEO) using Stratolaunch Systems’ air launch architecture and a scale version of SNC’s Dream Chaser® spacecraft. The Dream Chaser is a reusable, lifting-body spacecraft capable of crewed or autonomous flight. Dream Chaser […]
(Editor’s Note: The following is a press release from Sierra Nevada Corp. in regards to filing of a protest against NASA’s recent CCtCap contracts to Boeing and SpaceX) Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) announced today that it has filed a legal challenge to the award of contracts to Boeing and SpaceX under the Commercial Crew Transportation […]
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) today announced that the company has successfully completed all milestones under NASA’s Commercial Crew Development 2 (CCDev2) phase. Milestones achieved include a systems requirement review, flight simulator development, creation of a vehicle avionics integration laboratory, system definition review, flight control integration laboratory, preliminary design review and the first free-flight test of […]
Last week, Sierra Nevada conducted the first free-flight test of its Dream Chaser passenger carrying spacecraft. During the test, involving a non-spaceworthy atmospheric test vehicle, Dream Chaser was carried aloft to a 12,500 foot altitude by helicopter and released to perform a glide test back to the runway at Edwards AFB. The purpose of the […]
Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) suffered an apparent setback of its efforts to develop a commercial orbital passenger spacecraft today during the maiden free-flight of the atmospheric test article of the company’s Dream Chaser lifting body. According to eyewitness and confirmed by SNC, a landing gear deployment failure occurred and Dream Chaser flipped over after touchdown, […]