If that can do a small 500 lbf rocket, imagine what can do THIS to concrete – what can do a 9982 lbf LEM engine to the fine Moon regolite dust?! No crater? You gotta be kidding me! Anyway, it is clear that THIS engine: upload.wikimedia.org …never run. Because the nozzle is not even heated, not to mention consisting only of thin and painted (!) metal sheet…
This is an instructional video on how to slaughter at Red Dead Redemption online multiplayer.
Three-pane view: tripod tracking cam, on-board cam, and cutting between a pad-view cam and an up-facing cam.
Armadillo Aerospace’s Tube Rocket undergoes its first test firing, and the concrete pad is just bursting with excitement. This is a longer burn at lower final pressure than the vehicle will see in a flight to altitude, but it was a good test of the systems, as well as a good heating test of the bottom of the rocket. The tube rocket, named Stig, is a LOX/alcohol reusable sounding rocket. It will test our high altitude systems and operations, and to carry payloads to the edge of space.
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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 verification of the flight controls under increased acceleration and higher wind speeds. This vehicle, or one like it, will be flying Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research (CRuSR) payloads for Nasa in the near future. Watch it twice so you can see the landing gear extend!
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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.
Scenes from a day of rocket testing by Armadillo Aerospace while Neil Milburn uses his Blackberry.
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.
