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Dream Chaser Team Performs Successful Wind Tunnel Tests

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Tom Patton
Oct 28, 2020
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Sierra Nevada Corporation recently completed a series of wind tunnel tests of its Dream Chaser spaceplane performed at NASA’s Ames Research Center over the course of three weeks, requiring both on-site and additional remote support, for more than 16 hours a day. It was a test the Dream Chaser spaceplane team worked on for more than a year with preparati…

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