orbital test flight
C8899
concept
An orbital test flight is an initial or experimental space mission conducted to evaluate a spacecraft’s performance, systems, and safety while achieving and operating in Earth orbit.
All labels observed (10)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| test flight | 11 |
| uncrewed test flight | 7 |
| orbital test flight canonical | 3 |
| Dragon spacecraft test flight | 2 |
| Commercial Orbital Transportation Services demonstration mission | 1 |
| Crew Dragon demonstration mission | 1 |
| Saturn IB test flight | 1 |
| orbital flight test | 1 |
| uncrewed orbital flight test | 1 |
| uncrewed orbital spaceflight mission | 1 |
Instances (26)
| Instance | Via concept surface |
|---|---|
| EFT-1 | uncrewed test flight |
| Boe-OFT (Orbital Flight Test) | uncrewed orbital spaceflight mission |
| Boe-OFT-2 | uncrewed orbital flight test |
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Boe-CFT (Crew Flight Test)
surface form:
Boe-CFT
|
test flight |
| Apollo 4 | test flight |
| Launch Demo 2 | — |
| Apollo 6 | test flight |
| Crew Dragon Demo-1 | uncrewed test flight |
| COTS Demo Flight 1 | Dragon spacecraft test flight |
| COTS Demo Flight 2 | Commercial Orbital Transportation Services demonstration mission |
| SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 1 | Dragon spacecraft test flight |
| Exploration Flight Test 1 | uncrewed test flight |
| Gemini 1 | test flight |
| Gemini 2 | uncrewed test flight |
| STS-1 | — |
| STS-4 | orbital flight test |
| Flight 15P | test flight |
| OFT | uncrewed test flight |
| Mercury-Redstone 2 | test flight |
| AS-203 | Saturn IB test flight |
| Apollo 5 | — |
| Artemis I | test flight |
| Orion EFT-1 | test flight |
| Gaganyaan TV-D3 | test flight |
| SpX-DM1 | uncrewed test flight |
| Demo-1 | uncrewed test flight |