{"id":13808,"date":"2024-03-07T20:53:37","date_gmt":"2024-03-08T02:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=13808"},"modified":"2024-03-07T20:53:37","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T02:53:37","slug":"sierra-space-dream-chaser-completes-first-phase-of-pre-flight-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=13808","title":{"rendered":"Sierra Space Dream Chaser\u00ae completes first phase of pre-flight testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Louisville, Colorado, March 7, 2024<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><em>\u2013<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company and emerging defense tech prime building a platform in space to benefit and protect life on Earth, announced today the successful completion of the initial phase of environmental testing on the revolutionary Dream Chaser\u00ae spaceplane, Tenacity\u00ae, at NASA\u2019s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Over the past month, the Sierra Space Dream Chaser and its cargo companion, Shooting Star\u2122, underwent rigorous vibration testing while stacked in launch configuration inside the Mechanical Vibration Facility at the NASA complex. In readiness for launch from Kennedy Space Center, the tests exposed the vehicles to the intense conditions of launch vibrations using the world\u2019s most powerful spacecraft shaker table. <strong>Watch the video b<\/strong><strong>elow..<\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dream Chaser Spaceplane Environmental Test Campaign at NASA Armstrong Test Facility\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uAuJ1WhnGJA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"htex-popover-control\"><span id=\"htex-popover-action-copy\">Copy<\/span><b><\/b> <span id=\"htex-popover-action-translate\">Translate<\/span><\/div>\n<div id=\"htex-popover-control\" style=\"top: 135px; left: -33554357px;\"><span id=\"htex-popover-action-copy\">Copy<\/span><b><\/b> <span id=\"htex-popover-action-translate\">Translate<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Louisville, Colorado, March 7, 2024\u00a0\u2013\u00a0Sierra Space, a leading commercial space company and emerging defense tech prime building a platform in space to benefit and protect life on Earth, announced today the successful completion of the initial phase of environmental testing on the revolutionary Dream Chaser\u00ae spaceplane, Tenacity\u00ae, at NASA\u2019s Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[89],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13808","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aviation-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13808","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13809,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13808\/revisions\/13809"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}