Disassembly of Xoie

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Author:bbrockert
Published:2010-03-05 01:52:11

On December 9 2009, Ken, Joel and I took apart Xoie, the rocket with which we (Masten Space Systems) won the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge Level 2, aka one million dollars. This video is about two hours of work in two minutes. The software chopped off the end, unfortunately. The LOX tank has since had some machining done on it and will become a test stand tank, and the IPA tank was cut in half to see what was wrong with it. The helium tanks are in storage, and some of the avionics will be reused. The plan is to rebuild the vehicle almost entirely, with an aeroshell. We'll then use it to explore the transonic regime and other issues with higher speed flights.

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