The first of two flights of Armadillo Aerospace’s Scorpius vehicle competing in level 2 of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. The flight took place on the afternoon of September 12, 2009 at Caddo Mills Municipal Airport, Texas.
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Test flight of RRL Rocket Racer with Armadillo Aerospace eng
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, Oklahoma on August 25th and 26th, and were piloted by Rocket Racing League test pilot Len Fox. Each of the three test flights averaged about 10 minutes with a top speed of 190 knots.
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He was diggin in the garden so I snagged him, videoed him, and released.
Armadillo Aerospace Space Access 2008
Video presentation of Armadillo Aerospace at the Space Access 2008 conference. showing: – pixel and mod vehicles – lunar lander chalenge 2007 – engine test firings – future prospects – rocket crane truck (They had to do it. 
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A quick review of the Armadillo body armor, since ZMagic was interested in it.
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Armadillo Aerospace 2010 Space Access Society video
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 web site but this is the first time it’s been posted in HD, and with closed captions. We have fans who are hearing impaired, so this is for you too!
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John Carmack (Armadillo Aerospace) at NASA HQ
John Carmack of Armadillo Aerospace accepts his 0000 Prize for winning Level 1 of the 2008 Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. The Prize purse was put up by NASA as part of their Centennial Challenges and the competition was administered by the X PRIZE Foundation. The Challenge is designed to accelerate commercial technological developments supporting the birth of a new generation of Lunar Landers capable of ferrying payloads or humans back and forth between lunar orbit and the lunar surface. Such a vehicle would have direct application to NASAs space exploration goals as well as the personal spaceflight industry, including the Google Lunar X PRIZE competitors. Additionally, the challenge will help industry develop the operational capacity to launch quick turnaround vertical take-off, vertical landing vehicles, which will be of significant use to many facets of the commercial launch procurement market. The Competition is divided into two levels. Level 1 requires a rocket to take off from a designated launch area, rocket up to 150 feet (50 meters) altitude, then hover for 90 seconds while landing precisely on a landing pad 50 meters away. The flight must then be repeated in reverse—and both flights, along with all of the necessary preparation for each, must take place within a two and a half hour period.
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Watch Flight 2 of Armadillo Aerospace’s successful attempt to qualify to win Level 2 of the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge. See Super Mod aka Scorpius return from the lunar surface pad to its original start position. The competition is still open as there are other teams attempting to win the M first place prize purse later in October 2009. You can find out more about NGLLC 2009 at: space.xprize.org You can also see photos at: www.lauchpad.xprize.org
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Armadillo Aerospace cylindrical tank burst test
Testing an aluminum 15-inch diameter tank to its bursting point, shot at 300fps. This one gives way at 460 PSI. The point of a test like this is to see if the test tank would meet our needs in terms of how much it weighs vs. how much pressure it can hold, and what margins we’d have to stay within to safely use it on an actual rocket.