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[i]The vehicle's structure is now largely complete, but there is still more work to install its thermal protection system and other components. "We have the wings on now. It really looks like a spaceplane," said Janet Kavandi, president of Sierra Space, during a panel at the AIAA ASCENDx Texas conference in Houston April 28, where she played a video showing work building the vehicle. In a recent interview, Tom Vice, chief executive of Sierra Space, said the company had completed structural testing of the vehicle and was moving into final integration and testing. It should be ready to ship to NASA's Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Ohio, formerly known as Plum Brook Station, in August or September for four months of thermal vacuum testing. "Then we ship it to the Kennedy Space Center for integration onto the Vulcan rocket," he said, with a launch tentatively planned for February. However, Kavandi said in her remarks at the AIAA conference that the launch was planned "about a year from now."[/i]
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