* Morpheus crash NASA bought the lander concept from Armadillo Aerospace and took it for a spin recently. It didn't turn out so well.
Full video of the event: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hvlG2JtMts * Another Masten EDL traj. flights This is another awesome test flight run by JPL, on Masten's rocket. JPL is testing guidance code on increasingly aggressive Mars EDL style trajectories. That means slowing down the vehicles horizontal velocity with the rocket. For the test it flys vertically some fixed hieght and then pitches over and turns down the throttle so it falls rapidly sidways towards the target landing pad. Watch the correction and landing at the end! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WU4TZlA3jsg * Copenhagen Suborbitals is 0 for 3 CS launched their Launch Escape System (LES) rocket in the Baltic. This comprised of the capsule with the escape tower attached. The escape tower had (I believe N20/polyurethane) motor inside with multiple exhaust ports that direct the plumb around the capsule. The assembly then drifts to apogee and the tower is supposed to separate and parachutes open on everything. This actually mostly worked, which is impressive. However the capsule became pretty unstable after burnout and because of tumbling did not get high enough for the chutes to inflate properly. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNFh6zN0rGY * Forest Fire from space The Suomi National Polar-orbiting Partnership satellite has a NIR camera which caught these wildfires in Russia: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2012/08/07/nighttime-view-of-russian-wildfires-from-space/ _______________________________________________ psas-team mailing list psas-team@lists.psas.pdx.edu http://lists.psas.pdx.edu/mailman/listinfo/psas-team This list's membership is automatically generated from the memberships of the psas-airframe, psas-avionics, and psas-general mail lists. Visit http://lists.psas.pdx.edu to individually subscribe/unsubscribe yourself from these lists.
