A flight of the Armadillo Aerospace "Mod" vehicle on 2010.06.26. This was the first flight test of a four-point drogue attachment system, which increases the stability of the system when falling ...

This is a composite of flights 17-21 of Masten Space Systems XA0.1B-750 test vehicle. We were testing taking off closer to the ground, landing sequences and small translations in preparation for ...

XA-0.1-B (Xombie) boosted hop to 1047'. Masten Space Systems flew Xombie to its highest altitude yet! All systems functioned well. Xombie landed within roughly 3" of its take off point. A special ...

An un-tethered flight test by Armadillo Aerospace and NASA was successfully completed reaching a height of 180 feet. The altitude isnt the important part, though. Federal Aviation Administration ...

Launch seen from Banana River VIP Site.

The short mission of Ares IX is complete! Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana is congratulating the launch team and everyone involved in today's success. "I'm just so proud of each and every ...

Launc hseen from Press Site 1 Camera.

Includes induced perturbations to test recovery from aerodynamic impulses, and the telescopic legs extending at the end. We were ready to free-flight after this test, but a two-hour FAA hold would ...

Views from ground and on the rocket of the boosted hop on June 5th, 2010. Flight included engine shutdown, drogue deployment, engine restart, safe landing. Video courtesy of Armadillo Aerospace.

31 oct. 2009 - first boosted hop past 1000ft for armadillo aerospace

Yet another successful flight by Armadillo Aerospace

A flight to 2000ft AGL of an Armadillo Aerospace "Mod" VTVL rocket, with a shiny new actuated roll vane, 2010/06/22. Rather than using cold gas thrusters to move the vehicle around the vertical axis ...

In 2002, Russ Blink became Armadillo's first passenger -- for about six seconds.

Armadillo Aerospace's mod reaches 2959ft, thus making it the sixth-highest VTVL rocket flight in history, according to the DC-X flight log.

Armadillo Aerospace's mod reaches 2959ft, thus making it the sixth-highest VTVL rocket flight in history, according to the DC-X flight log. Static tripod cam (taken with an HD camera on its side for ...

Armadillo Aerospace latest boosted hop envelope expansion with the MOD. Hit 200-m. About 70-mph on the way up and 40-mph on the way down. Ass pucker time as she gets close to the ground but perfect ...

A full throttle hold down test of the Armadillo Aerospace Mod rocket, nicknamed "Dalek", on 2011.05.26. This is approximately the burn time that the vehicle will have in free flight. This represents ...

Friday's successful launch of the Armadillo Aerospace 'Mod' rocket flying just over 2000 feet, from a launch stand to the center of the pad. These relatively low flights are for testing and ...

Armadillo Aerospace 2000' flight Features: drogue deployment, engine shutdown, restart, drogue cutaway and landing.

Thats how to grill wieners!

Video presentation of Armadillo Aerospace at the Space Access 2010 conference. showing: - NASA methane work - rocket racing league flights - rocket tug of war - winning the the Level 2 Lunar Lander ...

Three-pane view: tripod tracking cam, on-board cam, and cutting between a pad-view cam and an up-facing cam.

This is the view from the west side of the pad looking east. It's taken from an HD camcorder turned on its side to get a taller view of the take off and landing. The landing portion shows a nice ...

First free flight of the Super Mod configuration with fairing and deployable legs. Apogee was 2247ft. This is the tripod shot that tracks it through the whole flight.

Blowing the composite nose off the Tube Rocket known as Stig. This shows the flight configuration, a classic dual deployment of drogue parachute and main. Here only the nose removal and drogue ...

The Armadillo Aerospace rocket named Stig performs its first hover test. It's a 22.5 inch diameter LOX/alcohol rocket. It is a fully reusable sounding rocket, for flying scientific payloads and ...

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 ...

Actually it's the second, the first was just before this but wasn't very long. Trying out a new controller. It does good on altitude, but is a bit too chilled out about position. The objective was ...

The fifth flight of Masten Space Systems XA-0.1B-750 single engine rocket vehicle of awesomeness. Here it gets a slight case of the vapors and does what we call a "hard abort", in which it shuts ...

The flight of Flometrics' LOX-Biodiesel rocket. The engine puts out 1000lbf nominally, pushing the rocket to near Mach 1. The rocket was built by Flometrics, www.flometrics.com The fuel was made by ...

Masten Space Systems Xombie rocket vehicle takes off with an alcohol/liquid oxygen engine, shuts the engine off in a fit of pique, and restarts it to land. Very very scary if you're there and you ...

This is a short hold down test of Masten Space Systems XA-0.1B-750 VTVL rocket vehicle. Notice the red hot metal under the rocket exhaust. The concrete paver used to deflect heat from the steel ...

The first test of 'autoland' capability on Masten Space Systems' XA-0.1B-750 vertical takeoff, vertical landing rocket vehicle. The vehicle is commanded to take off, then land itself and shut off ...

Northrup Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge Level II attempt by Masten Space Systems. This is the landing and subsequent fire from a lock down camera. The vehicle is being repaired as of this writing.

The very first flight attempt on Masten Space Systems XA-0.1B-750 vertical takeoff, vertical landing rocket vehicle. A liquid oxygen/isopropyl alcohol, 800 pound-force rocket engine propels the ...

The second engine-out flight, from June 26th, 2010. This time the drogue is attached at four individual points for more stability. This cut also shows the vane controlling roll.

This is the view looking up from next to the pad, which gives a good perspective on the correction the Mod had to do after relight to get back to its launch point. Best viewed in HD since the rocket ...

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 inlet led to the engine shearing ...

Flight 7 of the Masten Space Systems reusable launch vehicle demonstrator XA-0.1B-750. Here it was programmed to fly a square pattern around the center, and then do 45 degree rotation and back using ...

The view from a camera near the control bunker and two onboard cameras. Masten Space Systems XA-0.1B-750 rocket, aka Xombie, flies to over 1000 feet before coming down and landing almost exactly ...

This video is of NASA Project M Lander free flight test at Armadillo Aerospace outside of Dallas. The lander launched on June 23rd 2010. This is the prototype of the lander that may launch a version ...

This is the Masten Space Systems XA-0.1B-750 (xombie) rocket. On the day I was present, it lifted off and hovered 10 or so feet off the ground, then lifted RAPIDLY to just over 1000 feet, then came ...

This is a video of some of the new concrete pads poured, static motor and flight tests conducted at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry site in the Mojave Desert of California on April 2, 2011. ...

John Carmack of Armadillo Aerospace, talks about the propulsion system for the Rocket Racers of the Rocket Racing League.

The Rocket Racing League show at Tulsa International Airport on April 24, 2010. Something you don't see everyday. www.oksoonersquadron.org

www.rocketracingleague.com April 24, 2010 Rocket Racing League® hosted a 2-Hour Live Webcast of First Public Demonstration Flights of the Mark III X-Racer Hosted by Award winning National ...

Watch the Rocket Racing League test a engine from Armadillo Aerospace.

Armadillo Aerospace vehicle launches to 2000 ft; shuts down its engine; pops a drogue chute; relights its engine; and makes a pinpoint landing on its launch pad. Founder John Carmack, personally ...

28 July 2010 was nice day for flying rockets. This video is what you might see if you were strapped to one of the landing gear legs of our rocket Xombie. No, you cannot book rides. This is mostly a ...

Part 2. The upper stage burns brightly as this video takes us through SECO and the end of broadcast. The upper stage Niobium alloy nozzle is as thin as a Coke can.

A test for the Armadillo Aerospace rocket known as "Stig", here the fiberglass nose cone is blown off with air pressure. The nose is held on with nylon screws, and we're evaluating the sequencing of ...

The launch stand for Tube Rocket Stig, a reusable liquid-fueled sounding rocket built by Armadillo Aerospace, is demonstrated in this video. The stand was built to support the 1000+ lb weight of the ...

At last, a convincing hover! Just in time for the LLC.

This test is to verify a faster engine start sequence and automatic landing routines. Ian Garcia, our resident Guidance, Navigation and Control software genius was pleased with the results. That's ...

NASA documentary about the developement and early flights of the X-15 rocket plane. From en.wikipedia.org "The North American X-15 rocket-powered aircraft/spaceplane was part of the X-series of ...

The first A-4 flight-test model ("Launch Aggregate 1") was completed 25 February 1942,[2], but slipped out of its "corset" after being fully tanked at Test Stand VII, fell 2 meters, smashed three ...

Shot by Jared Ortega, a student intern of the New Mexico Spaceport Authority. This is tracking video of the flight of the Armadillo Aerospace rocket of the SuperMod model, named Dalek.

Testing a parachute deployment process by dropping a weight out of an airplane. As you can see there was excellent spatial coordination between the drop team and the recovery team.

Armadillo Aerospace launching the Tube Rocket named Stig. This camera shows the nose deploy and parachute release.

The Armadillo Aerospace tube rocket Stig launches, has a flight anomaly, and lands at Spaceport America in New Mexico. The file was corrupted which is why there isn't any audio. GoPro HD Hero ...

Armadillo Aerospace's Tube Rocket, named Stig, was being checked out with its first cryogenic load, using liquid nitrogen instead of liquid oxygen. Fuel was also loaded, as well as helium p ...

Star Wars pod racing meets NASCAR - a new sport - rocket powered aircraft race through the skies.

Rocket Racing League's custom X-Racer aircraft is explained by Chief Test Pilot, Len Fox.

Flight 2 of the Masten Space Systems vertical takeoff, vertical landing reusable launch vehicle demonstrator XA-0.1B-750. Here the camera was mounted to one leg of the vehicle, pointing at the ...

On Wednesday September 16, 2009, Masten Space Systems flew our XA0.1B-750 rocket vehicle in the Northrop-Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge, Level 1. The flight on the first leg was awesome to watch. ...

This is the forth tether flight of Xaero. This is a flight that runs until the fuel is gone. This makes for a good impromptu test of the structure at the end of the run when the rocket flames out ...

On May 26, 2010 Masten Space Systems demonstrated an in-air relight on our VTVL reusable rocket, XA-0.1B (Xombie). This test flight was a major step towards flying payloads to sub orbit. This is a ...

In 1959 this mock-up version of the Orion was launched helping prove the validity of the design. 1 Meter in diameter, weighing 105kg, it was not powered by nuclear blasts but by 1 kilogram balls of ...

Booster ignition and liftoff of the Ares IX flight test vehicle! For the first time since 1981, a new rocket is rising from Launch Complex 39. Ares IX is beginning a 20-second "fly-away" steering ...

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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. Video courtesy of Armadillo Aerospace.

Annual progress video covering Armadillo Aerospace activities from roughly April '09 to April '10. First shown at this year's Space Access Society conference, this video has been available on our ...

Horizontally-mounted test of a rocket engine at Armadillo Aerospace.

X Prize Cup 2005. New Mexico! Rocketpowered vehicles.

Presentation given by Armadillo Aerospace at the Space Access '07 conference.

Short video on the history of the Bell Aerosystems rocket pack.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral carrying the Dragon spaceship into orbit.

The Blue Angels support plane Fat Albert uses 8 JATO (APCP rocket motors) bottles to simulate an assisted short field take off in 2002 at NAS Willow Grove

High Powered model rocket with Go Pro HD onboard climbs to 82km and releases a custom built aluminum case with the GoPro HD inside. Rocket is the REXUS 910. The experiment was successfully recovered ...

June 10, 2010 - Naro Space Center. The Korea Space Launch Vehicle, or KSLV 1, blasted off from the Naro Space Center at 0801 GMT (4:01 am EDT), or at 5:01 pm local time. The rocket flew through a ...

This is what a normal tank burst looks like with a hydrostatic burst, rather than a pneumatic burst. In other words the tank is completely filled with an incompressible fluid, aka water, and when ...

Sometimes launching rockets isn't as easy as it may seem. Armadillo Aerospace is a NewSpace company looking to take you and me to the stars. Led by fearless leader John Carmack this amazing little ...

Rare 1944 or 1945 flight footage from Alexander Lippisch's archives of a German prototype P13a supersonic coal fuelled Ramjet Delta wing interceptor gliding in for landing. The craft in the film has ...

Masten Space Systems XA-0.1B-750 rocket vehicle takes off, translates off the pad, boosts, shuts of the engine, I have a heart attack and die, then it relights the engine and comes back down to the ...

The Dryden Flight Research Center (DFRC), located inside Edwards Air Force Base, is an aeronautical research center operated by NASA. On March 26, 1976 it was named in honor of the late Hugh L. ...

Flight of Armadillo Aerospace's Pixel quad vehicle to qualify for its FAA-AST experimental permit, Thursday, 19 October 2006.

Masten Space Systems Xombie rocket on a test flight on March 18 2010. I missed the top end framing a bit on this one, but after watching it a few times I think it's better this way. It enters from ...

first flight close up

First run of the Masten Space Systems rocket engine igniter version 2.1. It runs on gasesous oxygen (GOX) and isopropyl alcohol (IPA).

the march 20th launch from Omelek Island-the first stage hit the exhaust cone causing the rocket to oscillate near the end of the video until it flew out of control. It is likely that the rocket ...

The Rocket Racing League conducted successful test flights with the Armadillo Aerospace rocket engines manufactured by Armadillo Aerospace at the Clinton Sherman Industrial Airpark in Burns Flat, ...

On June 4th, 2010 at 14:30 UTC the first ever Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40, Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Carrying the Dragon Spacecraft Qualification Unit this flight ...

The first free flight of Unreasonable Rocket's Blue Ball, a peroxide monopropellant vehicle. I've seen a lot of rockets fly, and it's still amazing to see one hover on a mostly invisible plume of ...

Video courtesy: VIRGIN GALACTIC www.virgingalactic.com SpaceShipTwo (SS2) and its mothership, WhiteKnightTwo (WK2) herald a new era in commercial space flight with daily space tourism flights set to ...

A fleet of lifting bodies flown at the NASA Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, from 1963 to 1975 demonstrated the ability of pilots to maneuver (in the atmosphere) and safely land a ...

www.nasa.gov X-43A Raises the Bar to Mach 9.6 Guinness World Records recognized NASA's X-43A scramjet with a new world speed record for a jet-powered aircraft - Mach 9.6, or nearly 7000 mph. The ...

www.nasa.gov X-43A Raises the Bar to Mach 9.6 Guinness World Records recognized NASA's X-43A scramjet with a new world speed record for a jet-powered aircraft - Mach 9.6, or nearly 7000 mph. The ...

NASA's X-43A Scramjet Breaks Speed Record11.16.04 RELEASE: 04-59 NASA's X-43A research vehicle screamed into the record books again Tuesday, demonstrating an air-breathing engine can fly at nearly ...

MSS Partial hover

When you have a high speed camera and you work with rockets, the temptation to do the cliched "The Right Stuff" clip is just too strong. Paul A Breed, Paul T Breed, and a friend. Video taken using ...

Turn the volume up and enjoy a ground-based view of the first rocket powered aircraft built since WWII, then compare this view with the companion onboard RocketCam view. Test flight #13 was ...

Turn the volume up and enjoy the onboard view of the first rocket powered aircraft built since WWII, then compare this view with the companion ground-based view. Test flight #13 was conducted in ...

This B-Roll footage (courtesy of Vulcan Productions / Discovery Channel) shows onboard RocketCam views and chase-plane views of SpaceShipOne's rocket motor ignition, ascent from its White Knight ...

Highlights from NASA's Orion crew capsule Pad Abort Test #1. This abort sequence would kick in if the rocket blew up on the launch pad, and the astronauts inside the capsule would get quite a ride! ...

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Armadillo just completed a boosted hop to 2000 feet with an engine shutdown and extended freefall under a small drogue.

Armadillo just completed a boosted hop to 2000 feet with an engine shutdown and extended freefall under a small drogue.

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The Bachem Ba 349 Natter (Adder) was a World War II era German experimental point-defense rocket-powered interceptor aircraft which was to be used in a very similar way as unmanned surface-to-air ...

This five-minute video takes a look back at some of the aviation accomplishments at Edwards Air Force Base.

View of the launch operations of a four stage rocket using as first stage an stratospheric balloon. This was the most advanced system that used this combination called "Rockoon". It was a launch ...

KySat Space Express was a rapid turn around, suborbital access to space experiment launched in December 2007. The Space Express mission was designed to help test subsystems and processes being ...

Max Launch Abort System - NASA Engineering & Safety Center NASA has successfully demonstrated an alternate system for future astronauts to escape their launch vehicle. A simulated launch of the ...

Capture of the live video feed from NASA.gov of the successful PA-1 launch. Until something more hi-def is available this will have to do.

Video of the inaugural flight of the Rocket Racing League, taken at the Tulsa Air Show on April 24, 2010.

NASA's Wallops Flight Facility will launch a major sounding rocket test of an inflatable ballutet planetary reentry system Aug. 17. The liftoff between 7-11 a.m. EDT (1100-1500 GMT) is planned ...

The third flight of the day on Masten Space Systems' rocket vehicle. Another test of autolanding with some changes, this one doesn't work quite as well. That's why we fly on tether.