Meredith is a regional Murrow award-winning Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and science/space correspondent. She most recently was a Freelance Meteorologist for NY 1 in New York City & the 19 First Alert Weather Team in Cleveland.
Sierra Space's first Dream Chaser space plane,"Tenacity," recently wrapped up environmental testing in Ohio and is being prepped for shipment to its Florida launch site.The private Dream Chaser space plane is closer to reaching the final frontier than ever before, with a completed checklist from its environmental testing phase and preparations underway to send it to Florida for final testing ahead of launch. space plane at NASA's Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Ohio.
"Successful completion of an incredibly rigorous environmental testing campaign in close partnership with NASA is a significant milestone and puts Dream Chaser on track for operations later this year," Sierra Space CEO Tom Vice "This is the year that we transition from rigorous research and development to regular orbital operations and — in doing so — transform the way we connect space and Earth."
Once Tenacity and Shooting Star arrive in Florida, they'll head to KSC's Space Station Processing Facility and undergo a final round of prelaunch tests. These trials will include acoustic testing, electromagnetic interference and compatibility testing, and final inspection and work on the space plane's thermal protection system.Tenacity is the first of a planned fleet of Sierra Space space planes, which will conduct seven missions to the International Space Station as part of.
Meredith is a regional Murrow award-winning Certified Broadcast Meteorologist and science/space correspondent. She most recently was a Freelance Meteorologist for NY 1 in New York City & the 19 First Alert Weather Team in Cleveland.
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