It has been just revealed that Dream Chaser is getting tested at NASA. Check out the latest reports about this below.
Dream Chaser gets tested at NASA
Sierra Nevada Corporation’s Dream Chaser reusable spaceplane, named Tenacity, has undergone a journey of almost two decades and is now undergoing environmental testing at NASA’s Neil Armstrong Test Facility located at NASA’s Glenn Research Center. This is in preparation for its first flight to the International Space Station (ISS) scheduled for April 2024.
Sierra Space recently announced the completion of its spacecraft, Tenacity, at its facilities in Louisville, Colorado.
The spacecraft has undergone environmental testing to analyze its ability to withstand rigorous vibrations during launch and re-entry, extreme temperature changes, and vacuum conditions of outer space.
Additionally, Sierra Space delivered its cargo module, Shooting Star, to the Neil Armstrong Test Facility in the same month.
“At Sierra Space, we are ushering in the next industrial revolution with a business and technology platform that provides our customers with a complete turn-key solution offering space as a service,” Tom Vice, Sierra Space CEO, said in an official statement.
“Our platform includes Dream Chaser, a revolutionary, highly reusable commercial spaceplane with global runway access, and the first business-ready commercial space station, leveraging the most advanced expandable structural architecture that will exponentially decrease the cost of product development and manufacturing in space.”
Sierra Nevada’s decision to name its inaugural spacecraft “Tenacity” is appropriate given the challenging journey of Dream Chaser.
The development process has been riddled with obstacles such as rejections, corporate acquisitions, legal disputes, engineering designs, test flights, and ultimately, being chosen by NASA in January 2016 to transport cargo to the ISS.
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