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Rocket Dungeon: Armadillo NGLLC attempt today - complete coverage (2009-09-12)
Armadillo will fly the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge today at the Caddo Mills Airport northeast of Dallas. Weather permitting. Clark Lindsey is all over this event, amassing a list of ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: Armadillo Aerospace launches "Stig-a" to near space (2011-12-07)"The launch of Armadillo Aerospace's reusable suborbital sounding rocket Stiga. Fueled by liquid oxygen and denatured ethanol, the rocket reached close to 140,000 feet above sea level." What a great ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: 100-year starship projects (2012-05-23)Tonight, High Power Rocketry points us to a proposed fantasy-scale project that would Build the Enterprise . The term fantasy-scale, borrowed from NAR contest rocketry, implies a flying ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: Armadillo Aerospace (2008-01-01)Some great tests from AA. [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Who let the Armadillo out? Who? Who? (2009-07-21)Well, Armadillo Aerospace themselves, of course. Clark Lindsey points to a video of last Saturday's untethered free flight of their Methane/LOX-powered lander. The video itself isn't that exciting ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Lander photo (comments updated) (2009-08-15)photo , originally uploaded by Russell Blink . Armadillo's latest lander. Is that a VGA monitor on the top? Update: Clark Lindsey reports that Armadillo will go for Level-2 of the Northrop ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: 2009 NGLLC: First Attempts (UPDATE) (2009-08-25)Update: For the record, this is a cross post, via my Google Reader, from The Launch Pad . 2009 NGLLC: First Attempts : " Today, we are very excited to announce the first group of 2009 Northrop ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: "Excuse me while kiss the sky" (2009-09-11)Hendrix, Sep 11, 2009 , originally uploaded by Russell Blink . Lyrics by Hendrix. Hendrix by Armadillo. Photo by Russell Blink. [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Return to sender - Armadillo successfully completes leg #2 (2009-09-12)Clark Lindsey reports via PeterDiamandis : "flight 2 takeoff! and perfect flight back to original pad. Success!" All they have to do is get their lander back to the staging area. [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Armadillo flight videos (2009-09-13)Lunar Lander Challenge Level 2 Flight 1 Lunar Lander Challenge Level 2 Flight 2 [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Yes, someone has won the $1M (2009-09-13)Armadillo's success does not guarantee them the purse. If another team, ie Unreasonable Rocket or Masten, has a better mean landing accuracy, then they will edge Armadillo out. It's a good day in any ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Even better videos of Armadillo's successful X-prize flights (2009-09-13)These are really good. Check out the flame, the stability, and the gimballing of the thrust at landing. Includes on-board footage of touchdown. [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Nippin' at Armadillo's heels (2009-09-14)Paul Breed reports his Blue Ball had a 106 second stable hover . His qualification window is October 30-31. If you don't want to follow his blog, he is also on Twitter . If you don't want to ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Armadillo Aerospace Stick Two Landings and Take Home $1 Million (2009-09-15)The level two lunar lander X-Prize has been claimed. Armadillo Aerospace out of Rockwall, TX successfully flew there rocket Scorpious Super Mod between two pads then back again. With a half an hour ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: Really nice footage from a lunar lander prize flight (2009-10-13)"October 7, 2009 - Masten Space Systems flew our XA0.1B-750 rocket vehicle in the Northrop-Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, level one. Both Flights were successful meeting the required flight ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Big launch week ahead (update) (2009-10-25)Ares I-X is scheduled to launch from Kennedy Space Center's launch pad 39B at 8 a.m. Tuesday. The typical Florida weather may be a problem, however. The window is open until noon. ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Masten is loading LOX (update) (2009-10-29)Live! Update 1:49PM EDT: It looks like they are having the same problems as they did yesterday, which was a communications problem between the on-board computer and the GSE. This morning, they ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Both Masten and Unreasonable Rocket to fly the NGLLC today (updates) (2009-10-30)Masten around noon EDT and Unreasonable in the afternoon. I'm all for giving masten another shot, as long as it didn't squeeze Paul and his team. If it did, they should give him a window Sunday, ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Lander videos galore (2009-11-01)No word on what's up with Unreasonable Rocket's level-2 attempt, but the web yielded several videos of past lander flights by UR and others. Here is a downward looking video from Unreasonable ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Bloodhound SSC motor update (2009-11-04)Rocketeers.co.uk has an update on the development of the hybrid rocket motor for the Bloodhound SSC supersonic rocket car. The blogger expresses his/her " bitterly disappointed that we're ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Armadillo wants to take you higher (2009-11-05)Videos of Armadillos latest flight to 2959 ft (902 m) have made it to YouTube. I like the new pointy look! (spotted by Clark Lindsey , who has another one too) [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: 6 months in the life of Armadillo (2010-01-31)A reader (thanks George!) pointed me to Armadillos latest status report . This is big one, covering over 6 months of activity from the first Class III waiver issued by FAA AST, through the ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Armadillo boosted hop with 'chute deployment and engine restart (2010-06-06)One its latest flight, Armadillo's pointy Mod lander scooted to 2k', shut down its motor, deployed a drogue, drifted down a ways, released the 'chute, restarted its motor, and landed on target. ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: Armadillo Aerospace flight with parachute and restart (2010-06-07)"A four pane view of the boosted hop flight on June 5th, 2010 of the Mod vehicle with engine shutdown, drogue deployment, engine restart, safe landing." These teams are really starting to get ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Armadillo's 'Mod' lander gets a roll vane (2010-07-05)Here's a video of another flight to 2k' AGL. This time, roll is controlled by a vane vs. cold gas thrusters. I never get tired of these landers, especially the pointy ones. Note the spurious ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Another Armadillo 'Mod' video (2010-07-11)A new 3-pane video of a not so new flight (back on June 26th). Roll vane, (improved) drogue deployment, engine restart. (again via Clark Lindsey ) [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Tether test of the 'Super Mod' (2010-09-14)The Super Mod is more powerful, more aerodynamic, and sports shiny new telescopic legs. Last Saturday's test included perturbations to simulate the recovery from aerodynamic impulses. Armadillo says ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: The Dungeon's Top Ten of 2010 (updated) (2010-12-05)Here is my yearly recap of what I think was most significant in and around the Dungeon. As originally mentioned, I jumped the gun on posting the list. It's now 100% complete! In no ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: News about Armadillo's 'tuber' (2010-12-19)Dave Salt posted this comment here [on RLV and Space Transport News blog] regarding Armadillo's plans: I'm told that "tube vehicle" will be based upon Super-MOD design/technology but evolved to ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Armadillo goes totally tubular (2011-01-23)Armadillo's Ben Brockert has more info on Armadillo's latest . Their rockets are looking more and more like rockets (i.e. long and pointy). Here's is a photo from weldsman's Flickr stream. (two ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Review: Three scratch saucer-like objects (2011-01-28)This post documents three totally different saucer-like designs. The Half-Spool Jack-o-Lantern is made from a used CD-ROM and a small jack-o-lantern, the Instructables Frisbee Saucer is a paper ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: Armadillo Aerospace going for space (2011-01-29)"Last year we started work on a new vehicle planform, which we're calling the tube rocket. From our perspective it is a Supermod whose 36 inch spherical tanks have been replaced by 15 inch ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: New rocket term of the day: missilier (2011-02-08)Ben Brockert snaps a shot of the Tube Rocket with the fins on: It looks so much... missilier with the fins on - Twitpic (via Clark Lindsey ) [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Wanted Dead or Alive: Amateur rocket GPS tracked to >100K ft (2011-02-25)Rocketry Planet reported on a bounty offered by John Carmack of Armadillo Aerospace : Earlier this week, the gamer-turned-aerospace developer posted an offer of $5,000 for the first rocket to exceed ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Tutorial info on high altitude winds (2011-03-12)When I think of high altitude balloons, I generally just think the balloon will start moving with the ground winds and then transition smoothly to higher level winds such as those in the jet ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Static test of the day (2011-03-17)Stig didn't fly today as planned, but they did another static test. Click thru for a big version. (photo by Ben Brockert, found via Clark Lindsey ) [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Future Armadillos (2011-03-24)ParabolicArc posted these slides, which were presented by Armadillo Vice President Neil Milburn at the 14th Annual FAA Commercial Space Transportation Conference. I love clusters! BTW, Clark ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Tuesday Missile-any (2011-04-12)I see Loki Research will be sold to an employee and will live on. Dr. Frank Kosdon passed away last week at age 70. RP has a nice article on his legacy . Hope the weather holds for ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Project Morpheus, morphed from Armadillo's Quad lander (?) (2011-04-27)I heard of the Johnson Space Center's Project Morpheus . Here's an excerpt from their web site: Morpheus is a vertical test bed demonstrating new green propellant propulsion systems and autonomous ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Armadillo Supermod testing has begun (2011-05-07)While JSC is tweaking their methane-powered version of the Quad, Armadillo has begun testing their pointy, fin-legged Supermod. It spat "A bit of fire ... but not as much as we wanted." ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Links and nuttin' but links (2011-06-04)In no particular order: Here's a Flickr album on the flight of the the Copenhagen Suborbitals' HEAT 1X-Tycho Brahe flight: - Mission 2011 . And more HEAT 1X-Tycho Brahe videos, via Clark ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Armadillo postmortems on the Stig and Dalek (2011-06-16)Armadillo has posted very detailed flight reports on the 'tube rocket', Stig , and the finned SuperMod, Dalek . Both flights went up from Spaceport America and both failed. "Failed' may be a harsh ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: SuperMod rocket launch and crash (2011-06-19)Ground footage. Onboard footage. "The first and only free flight of the Armadillo Aerospace SuperMod rocket, nicknamed "Dalek". It was exterminated. Instability caused by unexpected gas in the fuel ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Jeff Taylor and Curt Newport to try for 100K' and the Carmack Prize (2011-07-31)Ben Brockert, of Armadillo Aerospace, provided an update on the Carmack Prize, including the rules, the background, and information about the only announced launch attempt. Jeff Taylor and ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: YAHP (yet another hodgepodge post) (2011-08-09)A reader provided links to photo essays about the Russian museum of the "NPP Zvezda" aerospace corporation. http://maksimzaitsev.livejournal.com/37521.html ( translated ) http://ru ... [Read More]
Model Rocket Building: Derek Deville Qu8k (2011-10-09)I'm usually a low power guy (Es and Fs were high power once, right?) but hold great respect for high power rocketry, especially when it is so well done. Check out the videos and website listed ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Eclectic Menagerie Park - Texas Pipe Supply (2011-10-16)A huge armadillo, Snoopy, King Kong, and rockets, oh my! The Eclectic Menagerie Park was created by the owners of Texas Pipe several years back as a way to give back to the community. The art ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: At Armadillo, the rockets are beginning to look more like rockets (2011-11-09)Credit: Phil Eaton/Armadillo via Clark Lindsey [Read More]
Wayne Hill's Blog: Rocketry Euphemisms (2011-11-13)Ben Brockert of Armadillo Aerospace offers some great rocketry euphemisms in a talk at SpaceVisions 2011. When things go wrong there are many terms rocketeers use to describe the situation. Many of ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: And even more landers in the news (2011-11-21)I have this fascination with lander style rockets - Armadillo, Masten, Blue Origin, Unreasonable Rocket, JSC's Morpheus and, now, MSFC's Mighty Eagle. I love the way the latter appears to ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Armadillo flies to 137k ft (updated...already) (2011-12-06)Parabolic Arc reported that Armadillo's Stig-A "Tube Rocket" flew to 124,000' from Spaceport America [as noted below, the altitude was actually 137,500']. Love the Mach diamonds and, in ... [Read More]
Wayne Hill's Blog: Armadillo’s Stig rocket reaches 140,000 ft (2011-12-06)December 4 2011 launch of Armadillo Aerospace Stig-A at Spaceport America. Apogee is near 140,000 ft above sea level. More details to come at http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/ [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Armadillo Aerospace Stiga Rocket Launched To 137,500 ft. / 41.91km (2011-12-07)The launch of Armadillo Aerospace's reusable suborbital sounding rocket Stiga. Fueled by liquid oxygen and denatured ethanol, the rocket reached 137,500 feet above sea level. The rocket was ... [Read More]
DTH Rocket Blog: Armadillo Aerospace Reaches 137,000 ft with "Stiga" (2011-12-07)I've been following this company for a while, and am very impressed with what they can do. It is a very small company with only a handful of employees. One of them, (Ben Brockert) is an alumnus of ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Stiga post mortem (2011-12-23)Armadillo employee Ben Brockert has posted a ton of details about the Flight of the Stiga . The Stiga was 32' tall, 15.25' dia.and weighed about 1,600 lb. It pulled 3.85 G's on its ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: The full story of Stig-A from Armadillo Aerospace (2011-12-23)"On Sunday morning, 4 December 2011, Armadillo Aerospace launched the tube rocket "Stiga" (aka STIG-A) to approximately 140,000 feet above sea level from Spaceport America. The rocket took just ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: The Dungeon's Top Ten of 2011 (2011-12-27)In no particular order.... Early in the year, I completed transferring reviews from the old EMRR (see the My Rocket Reviews Page ). I transferred (and updated) all but eight and, while I ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: Project High Jump Boosted Dart (2012-01-26)How do I always miss the great projects? Here is video footage of the attempt: The motor failed during burn, resulting in a shred and recovery failures. This flight was one of several proposed ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Feed reader stars and interesting links (2012-01-29)Oddroc of the day: Kinder Surprise Rocket , on Sascha Grant's Flickr photostream Armadillo flies STIG-A to 137kft, makes "hard landing" , RLV and Space Trasnport - via Jeff Foust via NM ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: STIG-A ballute in space (2012-02-02)ARMADILLO PR — Following detailed analysis of the downlinked telemetry and audio/video recordings from both ground based cameras and a camera that was recovered from the rocket, Armadillo ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: Armadillo launches the STIG-A rocket to 50 miles (2012-02-02)Parabolic Arc No videos yet, but I will post them as soon as they come up. For now, check out these two videos of the previous flight. Warning, the volume is loud in both. (Because they both have ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Feed reader stars and other interesting links (2012-02-08)Shark-eating shark snapped in Australia - Short Sharp Science Joyeux anniversaire, Jules Verne! - Smithsonian Libraries - Happy 189th! More on Armadillo STIG-A flight - RLV and ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Chrome 17 broke Blogger (updated) (2012-02-09)Update: Had to tweak the cookies exceptions. Don't know what happened in Chrome 17 that required this but all's well that ends well. Any page that allows me to comment on my own posts doesn't ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Stiga Flight 2 to 95km by Armadillo Aerospace (2012-02-22)We finally get the video footage of Stiga's second flight on Jan. 28th. The highlights: the upward looking pad cam; skip to about 3:30 in to see some photos of the earth and the recovery gear; ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: Stiga flight 2 - to 95km by Armadillo Aerospace (2012-02-26)Recovery on this flight was less than optimal, but it is great to see the rocket performing as needed for spaceflight. The footage from about 3:30 until reentry shows really cool micro-gravity and a ... [Read More]
DTH Rocket Blog: Update on Happenings in the Private Space Industry (2012-02-28)SpaceX: The famous SpaceX is gearing up to launch their new Dragon capsule up to the International Space Station. The flight was originally planned for December of last year. One thing led to ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Feed reader stars, tweets and other interesting links (2012-03-13)JSC's methane-fueled Morpheus Lander (built by Armadillo) performed another tethered hover today. Although longer than the last one, it was not different enough to warrant a separate post. ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Feed reader stars, tweets and other interesting links (2012-03-27)Desert Wings, Aviation in the American Southwest - Mostly about military aircraft, but does include info on ordinance (i.e. missiles). Armadillo's big tube - RLV and Space Transportation - No ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Links roundup (2012-04-17)Space Shuttle launch set to Countdown by Rush Link Lattte 178 - DRB A still photo from Armadillo Stig-Stiga engine test today, because rockets are pretty. twitpic.com/9b1gn3 — Ben ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Armadillo gets their Operator Launch License for the STIG (2012-07-26)SANTA CLARA, Calif. (Armadillo PR) — At Newspace 2012 hosted by the Space Frontier Foundation in Santa Clara CA, Dr. George Nield, Associate Administrator for the FAA Office of ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: Clustering STIG modules for higher performance (2012-07-27)By utilizing many STIG-A type modules in a cluster, it will be possible to achieve two and maybe even three stage flights. This can greatly increase altitude and performance. ... [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: Armadillo receives FAA launch license for STIG-B (2012-07-30)Armadillo Aerospace is one step closer to flying a rocket into space after receiving a launch license from the FAA on Thursday. During a brief presentation at the NewSpace 2012 Conference in Santa ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Xombie 750m Mars EDL Divert Trajectory (2012-08-16)On their blog, Masten discusses the latest Xombie flight. And, of course, there are videos. Xombie went to new heights, moved at faster speeds, and translated further. "As far as we know, the ... [Read More]
High Power Rocketry: M1000 to M685 flight - Apogee over 100,000 feet! (2012-09-14)"This is the video of the AeroPac 2012 successful flight to 104,659' AGL on Tuesday 9/11/2012. It was a two stage flight with fully commercial certified motors - an AeroTech N1000 staging to an ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Links roundup (2012-10-11)B612 Foundation Moves Ahead With NEO Mission , NASA Watch SpaceX Rocket Launch Glitch Left Piggyback Satellite in Wrong Orbit , Space.com SRB-X options , Unwanted Blog MODEL MISSILES ... [Read More]
Wayne Hill's Blog: Stig B flies and returns under Wamore recovery system (2012-12-06)Here is a video of the launch and recovery of Armadillo Stig B all within the same frame. The Wamore recovery system brings the rocket back within 80 meters of the launch. During this launch the ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: Video of a Stig B precision landing (2012-12-06)Here is a video of the latest Stig B flight, which was controlled by a system developed by Wamore, Inc . The system is expected to return the rocket within 80m. The depicted landing was at 55m. ... [Read More]
Wayne Hill's Blog: Crew View STIG B-1 (2013-02-17)Great behind the scenes video of the Armadillo Aerospace STIG B-1 crew during launch. Love that slow takeoff. [Read More]
Wayne Hill's Blog: STIG B Flight 3 (2013-03-01)Sad Armadillos! Nice Launch with a not so nice recovery. [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of the latest Stig-B flight (a.k.a. "Sad Armadillos") (2013-03-01)The Good = the launch (great footage from multiple perspectives). The Bad = deployment problems, D'OH. The Ugly = ground impact! [Read More]
Bayourat Aerospace Blog: NASA Selects New Suborbital Payloads, Total Tops 100 Experiments (2013-06-09)Washington, DC - NASA has selected 21 space technology payloads for flights on commercial reusable launch vehicles, balloons, and a commercial parabolic aircraft. This latest selection represents ... [Read More]
Rocket Dungeon: The Rockwell Integrated Space Plan, remastered (2013-07-06)Last year, I posted about Ronald Jones' Rockwell Integrated Space Plan (1989) , which Make Magazine received from an anonymous source. The plan has been remastered and color coded in a vector ... [Read More]
Wayne Hill's Blog: Armadillo Aerospace is out of money (2013-08-03)There is apparently a good reason we have not heard from Armadillo Aerospace since a STIG-B launch back in February. They are effectively out of money and have entered a “hibernation ... [Read More]
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