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Advanced Materials & Processes, May, 2001
NASA, Boeing test X-40A aircraft NASA and its industry partner Boeing are making free-flight tests of the X-40A test vehicle (an 85% scale version of NASA's X-37 technology demonstrator) at Dryden Flight L Research Center, Edwards, Calif. The X-40A has a fuselage length of 6.7 m (22 ft.), a wing span of 3.65 m (12 ft.) and weighs 1179 kg (2600 lb).
The X-40A's shape and its guidance and other systems are being tested to mitigate risk. Flight objectives include validation of Computed Air Data Systems (CADS), which will become part of the flight control system of the X-37. Other test points are in-flight performance evaluation of the Honeywell SIGI Space Integrated Global Positioning System/Inertial Navigation System; test of control room operations; and...
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