Armadillo Aerospace Wins Northrup Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge!

Comments [0] posted: Oct 24, 2008 R. Lewis

More breaking news, it is not yet official, but Armadillo successfully completed the second 90 second test flight to win the LLC level 1.  Congratulations Armadillo!

What was amazing is on the second flight, the launch aborted twice, and they just restarted the count immediately.  I think the first abort was an ignition failure, and the second abort was a combustion failure.  Looks like they got ignition and then had a flameout.

PS, you heard it here first ;-)

UPDATE:

It IS official, Armadillo won the level 1 challenge!

Here is the video of just the winning flight:

Here is a longer video of the whole level 1 competition with Peter Diamandis:


      Comments [0]
tags: [rocket | space | X-Prize]


Name
E-mail
(will show your gravatar icon)
Home page

Live Comment Preview

Comment (Some html is allowed: a@href@title, b, blockquote@cite, i, strike, strong, sub, u) where the @ means "attribute." For example, you can use <a href="" title=""> or <blockquote cite="Scott">.  
Enter the code shown (prevents robots):
<<< Older Stuff Yo!
home | about | rss
heya punk.here is where lotsa content will be
Larry says!
Larry says!