FLIGHT #2 of Armadillo Aerospace's Level 2 attempt at NGLLC 2009

[Ondelendo]

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[bebeheuy]

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[willamricard]

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[imegatrone]

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[bundawartini]

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[devofreqo]

now i wanna play lunar lander

[vigorousAtheist]

Lol i thought it was a small craft until i saw the guy come out with a fire extinguisher. Lol i was like WHOA.

[seabees2009]

WOW That's freaking COOL!!!

[igatube]

Hey, I thought it is 10-storeys building high after reading top comments.

[qwasd0r]

IS THERE ANYTHING JOHN CARMACK CANT DO BETTER THAN ANYONE ELSE?

[mjkobb]

I kept waiting for it to start saying, "I am Nomad."

[WindKun]

RAGE! DOOM 4!!!

[featheredmusic]

IFO!!!



[kousoulides]

so astronauts just need to carry a fire extinguisher with them.

[piranha031091]

@kousoulides This thing is designed to be flown on the moon, under a vacuum: once the oxygen has been cut off, the residual fuel cannot burn like it is doing on earth, so you won't need a fire extinguisher.

[kousoulides]

@piranha031091 :) Ok thanks for the answer.

[shebotnov]

@kousoulides there is no O2 in space

[Elamin008]

so the astronaut who will drive this thing to the moon should have a Fire extinguisher to shut down the engine ??!!!!

[xLightningShotx]

@Elamin008 if it where to go into space and they cut off fuel there would be no oxygen to power the flame.

[mrplease66]

@Elamin008 News Flash: No Atmosphere on moon! Flames visible at the end are from residue in the nozzle.

[Elamin008]

@mrplease66 look Mr. news guy : first of all you can't diagnose the reason of the flames on youtube maybe the liquid oxygen was leaking too did you exam the Nozzle ?!!

second don't you see that there is some one already mention that theory before you? what the point of repeating his talk ?!!

[shaygahweh]

@Elamin008 how can you have fire without an oxidizer?

[zcg3]

It's not a UFO...it's a weather balloon...

[dustergirl107]

A ufo! That's what I call, Suck it up to land.

[sanaph]

wow super cool

[ferrarif40owner]

This is an UFO..........

[09rockmusic]

luv it, that thing is relentless!

[MrPianoguitar]

3:22 ..man, you are my new personal hero...

[PY2RPJ]

A big cigarette lighter!!! Fine!!!

[Tyrannobeast]

Of course it doesn't fly to the Moon! The Lunar Module didn't fly to the Moon itself, that's why the Saturn V was made! This is just the LANDER, it would be boosted into orbit and to the Moon by a larger rocket.

[GT4604]

How does this keep level! This and the Masten lander I just watched have astounded me

[justchillwidit]

That was one brave dude running out there with the fire extinguisher after landing and engine shutdown. You could see the lander oscillate vertically in the hover.

[10DieterJamin]

Phenomenal !.

[ymi2b]

Why are so many of my comments negatived out so they're not shown!!?

Anyways, this thing is not as good as it looks, I asked if it could lift up a 5 ton satellite into orbit and they said no and THAT IT CANNOT EVEN GET INTO OBIT by itself...soooo, I guess that closes down this project pretty fast. Shame too cuz it was looking pretty good for a bit there.

[sillyarms]

This rocket is designed to be a lander, not a lifter.  An even bigger rocket will lift a lander like this to space. Then the lander will land on something.

[ymi2b]

Right, you mean it's to land on the moon, right? Like I said, the scientists I spoke with who were part of this project said it cannot even get itself to the moon.

[savemyplaylist]

@ymi2b

That's not how it works you fucking moron. Rockets send this into orbit, it doesn't fly all the way there!!

I'm fairly certain I know the answer to this, but did you graduate high school?

[ymi2b]

What do you mean it doesn't fly to the moon? Then how does the rocket make it into orbit then? You aren't making sense, did you leave out a sentence by accident? My weekend scientists club and I have calculated this 10 times now, there simply is no way THIS ROCKET IN THE VIDEO CAN GET INTO ORBIT!! It simply hasn't enough fuel. Oh, and you don't have to be all mean to me. I'm just trying to make science friends here. So, I forgive you, my friend.

[savemyplaylist]

@ymi2b

It's not supposed to you fucking retard!!! It's supposed to descend from the orbiting craft that GETS it to the moon!!!

Wiki: Lander_(spacecraft)

[savemyplaylist]

@ymi2b

"weekend scientists club"

-You troll son of a bitch, you actually had me there for a second.

[teslognet]

Wow, that's really good run time!

[SexxyyAmber88]

i really need somebody to .... Well come and find out^^

[mackjsm]

WOW!

[stahlhammer]

*shakes hand*

WELL DONE! :D

[laurenzo42]

Whaooo ! really impressive test !!

what's this engine ?

[guitarzero]

they have really improved the stability and fuel consumption of this lander. Sure it has taken lot's of time and money but something as complicated as this really has to work right the first time. Noticed that there are no small burners to control flight attitudes like the older versions.

[Urwumpe]

Of course, it should be mentioned that this vehicle cost a few magnitudes less than something done by one of the big aerospace companies(like the DC-X) - many people in Armadillo Aerospace are usually programming computer games for a living.

That it does not do a engine purge after cut-off is still not bad enough to make forget that it was able to fly nearly the full level 2 trip.

[zerosonico]

2:43 lovely shot

[trianglepoint]

Well we are wacthing you and the unc. sam knows we are watchin u..very primitive and good immagination

[muslemassry]

I swear that is great.

[Nordiclegion]

Comming along very nicely indeed :) Great engineering like this puts us one step closer to commercial space travel.

[TheANTISEMITE]

As long as they remember to stow a fire extinguisher to put the contraption out after you arrive at your destination! LMAO "Ladies and gentlemen will have landed at lunar outpost 4. You will be allowed to disembark if the ground crew manages to extinguish our spacecraft. In the event they are unsuccessful urinate on yourself and any near by children and await further instructions."

[Padwan2]

Probably not an issue on the moon without an atmosphere to sustain a fire. :)

[anbo369]

lol :)

[operonrs]

What a beautiful sound.

[GLeNss]

I can see this technology being applied to a shitload of badass things. Well done guys!

[p1ayaone]

outstanding, especially the massive stability on the yaw

[magnetichaze]

jetpacks can't be that far away. That was awsome!

[TheANTISEMITE]

Jetpacks have been around since 1949.

[magnetichaze]

Yes they have, However, those jet packs spend there fuel rapidly (empty tank in 30 sec + or -). Moreover, the jet packs your talking of use high grade H2O2 as fuel (i think it's pressurized and a silver mesh creates the reaction that turns H2O2 into steam for thrust) and it's hard to get and or refine.

[skytreker]

Third time's the charm...

Man this thing is so awesum. It looks sooo surreal, like some flying saucer or something.

Great job Armadillo! Congratulations! Your ship is outta this world!

[Hootz99]

Great job guys!! I wish my days at the office were like that! :)

[slafkec]

well said!

[sjhippie]

Superb work guys!

[sirnicholson]

Way cool!But we need some new words.They could call it something like "Grungerstryf"or whatever.great video!!

[sempertard]

out-fucking-standing!

[belisariusorb]

Thanks both brightanswers and soolew7 for your interesting comments - I'm really nitpicking here, and I should really join in the congratulations for another fine Armadillo task accomplished brilliantly.

I wish them the best of luck in their race to the moon.

[belisariusorb]

But I suppose what really impresses me is their total nonchalance in the presence of burning rocket fuel... I wish I was that brave!

[soolew7]

belisariusorb, this is from the latest AA update.

"One weight savings that we made was to take out the manifold purges and their plumbing. In hindsight, this wasn't worth the savings. The engine starts and runs fine, but it doesn't shut down cleanly, leaving licks of fire going for a while" "I didn't want to touch the perfectly working Super Mod at that point, but we are going to put them back on this week."

[DavidJBuchner]

Congratulations to the Armadillo team! That is a beautiful sight.

[belisariusorb]

The Armadillo guys seem completely unfazed that their rocket lander is on fire at the end... just mosey up to that burning rocket engine and dust it down, no problem.

Unfortunately guys with extinguishers won't be present on the surface of the moon.

[brightanswers]

No will there be the oxygen in the atmosphere to help the flames burn, so I shouldn't imagine that's a problem...

[kam75]

nozzle swivels when near ground to compensate?

[coldstoragevideo]

OMG! I WANT one!!! :OD

[czubspenx]

Dave's Farm needs to get into the contest!

[r32adt3db]

it looks like some kind of freaky S & M anal toy.

[Maux4200]

Haha i thought that thing was tiny in the beginning but the end really suprised me

[ymi2b]

It's quite impressive, except the landing which is very rough, you'd break glasses and stuff stored inside, so it's not practical. Back to the drawing boards boys.. oops, we're in the modern era where people now use "she" instead of "he" to refer to "people" in general... so I meant to say, "back to the drwaing boards ma' ladies"... oops, but that may sound too galant and I may be taken to court by the NAACP.. oh man, I just can't win, can I? ..sigh..

[PosVibeMerc]

What are you talking about only 1/6th the gravity on the moon, its going to be a very soft landing. You do realize that this IS the drawing board right? So far they are doing pretty Fing great, you are just looking at anything to pick at. Look in the the mirror and do the same.

[ymi2b]

I'm not NITPICKING! I'm just saying it was a hard landing! And as I POINTED OUT ABOVE, a CAR has MUCH BETTER FUEL ECONOMY!!! Why fly when you can drive!! Gosh! Think about all the carbon debt they're putting us in, it is bad enough with Bush and his rockets of death, but now they have this Scorpius thing adding to the green house gasses ... can't we make an electric car or soemthing instead?!

[runajayrun]

Wow, did not realise how big that thing was till the end!

[cybertai33]

OMG.. i had thought that thing was small.. like ... toy kindda small.. till the end! its bigger then a person!

[ymi2b]

Yeah, it may be bigger than a person, but you still cannot ride in it to Mars, so it's a total waste of money. I know I'm not buying one. Besides, flipping' government will probably require a pilot's license anyways.

[Meejoe27]

Cool video.

I seriously thought it was only 2 feet high all the way up to the end. when those people ran out it changed my whole perspective.

[MattUK2007]

Same here.

[bobbycratchit]

@Meejoe27 Yeah, I agree. That is bizarre. It almost looked unreal based on my previous perception. Wow, that's a pretty cool rocket.

[gmanzeroalpha]

@Meejoe27 My God, they hired two genetically modified midgets to put out the fire. With tiney fire extinguishers. Amazing work.

[patswickedpissah]

Couple notes on my 2nd viewing...in Hi-Def note the shockwave diamonds in the exhaust stream and it's fun to watch John Carmac's software wiggle the rocket nozzel back and forth stabalizing the landing. I believe that the duration is selected to simulate an actual lunar landing sequence. The rocket is almost all fuel and oxidizer tanks, enough propellant for the couple minutes' flight.

[Davidgojr]

Looks like very good control and a long duration flight! Congratulations!!

[flujotech]

Great! You only really get a sense of scale at the end of the video and was quite surprised at the size of it.. Out of curiosity was that a UAV launched at 2:15 off to the right?

[79catcer]

some debris blown up from the ground is what it looks like

[ymi2b]

Well, the government won't fully disclose what that 2:15 object was, other than to say the typical explanation of a "weather balloon" which I and my UFOcon comittee know is total bull malarkey (or however you spell malarky). A local rastaurant waitress said she saw it out the window of the local Big Boys and saw "grey" beings inside with big black eyes.. I smell yet another gov't coverup.

[z0nt21]

As I watch this, I see a great civilization spanning this whole star system and preparing for first manned flight outside the Oort cloud...

[BaronVonGotha]

nice.

[dobberdoss]

such a LONG burn time for something so small! very efficient

[ymi2b]

Not really... It looks to be about 22 gallons of fuel and it only traveled about 100 meters round-trip. With that much gas I can go about 720 miles in my car, thus the car is far more efficient. Granted, the car cannot fly, but my frien's small prop plane still would get about 400 miles on that much fuel.

[dobberdoss]

well duh!, Are you being sarcastic or are you really so stupid as to compare a rocket engine to that of a car for efficiency

[ymi2b]

Well, I mean, of course I know a plane cannot fly on the moon due to the low air content, and I realize it's possible a normal car may have to be outfitted a lot to work on the moon, affecting gas mileage, but my point is that a car would go SO MUCH further. Rockets are cool, but impractical.

[dobberdoss]

very nice work, simple design is best

[celshader]

awesome. Amazing how much control you guys have over the lander.

[exo762]

Pure win - this video is made of it. Congratulations!

[ConcreteColoursTV]

how does it maintain that thrust for so long with that small design?!?

[patswickedpissah]

Congrats to John and the entire team. Well done. Nice modular spacecraft.

[DJBREIT]

It is nice to see them go from an idea on a piece of paper to pulling this off.

You GO Armadillo and hope this is just the beginning. :)

[billyzelsnack]

Looks rendered! :)

[billyzelsnack]

-3 huh? Swoosh.. Above your heads. haha.

[ymi2b]

Dude, don't call people rendered... it's not their fault if they're born that way.. sheesh, have some sensitivity.

[Tia1ko]

Besides no one ever having claimed that "we are all the same", it's funny how some people see their obsessions everywhere, isn't it? Poor you, you must have real nightmares.

[flightrulez]

your a really racist redneck asshole

[manofsan]

Superb work from the minds of Armadillo!

Maybe they need to find a way to turn something like into a commercializable product, to reap more rewards from their fine work.

I wonder if there's some kind of dual-use alternative market for something like this? How about making a small miniaturized version that could be marketed as a toy for adult geeks? (aka "overgrown kids")

[tsaranen]

Congratulations are in order to the good folks at Armadillo Aerospace, a trully great achievement.

Now I can finaly forgive Carmack for Daikatana :)

[Enderu666]

Carmack had nothing to do with Daikatana. You must be confusing him with John Romero.

[tsaranen]

Yes indeed that was my mistake. Damn and now I have to add Romero to hit list :)

[vincecate]

Ya!!!!!!!!!!

[itsracktime]

wow, excllent

[jerseystitch]

MASTERFUL WORK! Artistic brilliance. I wish all of you the very best.