Posted in Homebuilt, Lunar, Motivation, NASA, RLV:s, tagged LLC, Masten, RLV, VTVL on Wednesday 2009.10.07| Leave a Comment »
Live stream just went up at http://qik.com/video/312581
they should be flying at 45 past whatever hour it is now in your time zone. Now on the pad loading propellants and helium.
EDIT:
And they did it! Congratulations! Also great accuracy.
The live cellphone video of the second flight was shot from quite close: http://qik.com/video/3126566
Posted in engines, Motivation, RLV:s, tagged 2009, Armadillo, LLC, Masten, RLV, VTVL on Thursday 2009.09.17| Leave a Comment »
Made huge strides in the last few days. A half-L1 done. They might be able to compete with Armadillo on L2, though I’m somewhat skeptical since they’re only going to assemble the new L2 vehicle soon.
Suddenly looks like there are two viable big VTVL sounding rocket companies!
Gravity Loss (now moved to gravityloss.com) 