FLIGHT #1 of Armadillo Aerospace's Level 2 attempt at NGLLC 2009

[NFLReject]

John, you are a stud! Keep pushing into 2012.

[Ondelendo]

I am very happy to see the vidoe rmadillo 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 from you, hopefully the others also are happy for You

[bebeheuy]

I Love The Video 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 $1M first place prize purse later in October 2009 It Can Increase My Knowledge

[willamricard]

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[imegatrone]

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[bundawartini]

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[xilefian]

holy fuck that's amazing

[dban10]

This is awesome.

[Astrobrant2]

Fancier than it looks. I am impressed with how stable it is. Did you notice how the nozzle rapidly changes angles slightly? I wonder if that means it has a vertical sensor and a computerized balance compensator. Really cool stuff. How long have they been able to do that?

I wonder how they were able to make stable descents with Surveyor and Mariner, etc., without that kind of technology.

[broadblik]

@Astrobrant2 It's just a Inertial Navigation system using a gyroscope, similar systems, known as 'fly by wire' are in most modern day high performance military aircraft, for example the F-16, which needs a computer guiding it to actually fly. In theory it has been possible to do this for a while, just the application is somewhat complicated.

[Astrobrant2]

@broadblik Thanks. I remember seeing a film at least 20 years ago of a pogo-stick robot. It could adjust each jump to compensate for any error accumulated in the previous one. This looks very much like the same kind of technology.

[AOXOMOXO]

The Armadillo has landed!

[yJerichoy]

J. Carmack is genius! If that thing will work like final build of Quake 3, John will survive at Doom accident. Nice job, keep it up!

[Romulo282838]

momm i wanna it :O

[conphusion]

Where do I buy tickets to ride that thing? :)

[GaryL1960]

Well done! But can I play this using the Quake III engine?

Seriously, I hope that million dollars will help put the Armadillo into orbit.

Good luck and keep safe guys!

[laserfloyd]

Fake. No crater! :)

Seriously, that thing is very cool. Very stable looking! Grats to the people who tested it.

[kam75]

well done..clap..clap....

[5botball]

I thought the end was funny. the guys running in and seeing how small they were compared to the lander.

[5thdemon]

летающий сварочный аппарат, окуеть, додумальсь)))

[fuzzypeach777]

"летающий сварочный аппарат, окуеть, додумальсь"

Translation:

"Those Americans, so clever in 1969, and they still are!" We'll never catch up here is Russia".

[5thdemon]

мы вам покажем Кузькину мать)

[yJerichoy]

no, it doesnt.

Real translation:

You guys smart enough to invent flying welding machine lmao

[lupinPL]

..you know what..i can make a small scale on that... it needs only a simple ignation switch(time triggered) and remote control valve..to control the amount of propane gas flow..also served as its acccelaration.. and you know what is my design is... a two fork bind together with a toothpick..its stable and balance...but much bigger size..i mean the concept is like 2 fork thats been bind by a toothpick or a match stick...:D

[ArchNME]

@lupinPL Do it.

[styken]

This is incredibly impressive, I can't believe how stable it is. I wonder what the fuel is.

I also got fooled by the scale, that thing must be 15' tall!

[tmac20031]

If there is only thrust coming from the main engine, I am impressed. The onboard computer has to be working overtime to keep that thing vectored correctly.

[Joshatdot]

That thing is much bigger than it looked!

[1Oleh2]

same, at the end, lmfaoo

[ymi2b]

Eh, whatever, I've seen bigger.

[AudacityOfGrey]

Did anyone else get the scale wrong till the guys walked into the clip?

[Kizzard]

Absolutely! I was like auw, cute little test vehicle... woah, hold on a moment...

[lupinPL]

..what an ugly invention..its like our gas tank just flown away..can you guys make the design much nice to look..like space craft thing.. not like cercular or oblong..

[tmac20031]

When your spending thousands of dollars (or even millions), function is more important than form.

[mark1parsons]

It's alot bigger than it first looks!

[bertd789]

see wikipedia

pendulum rocket fallacy

[LevitskiSRGE]

nice job, very stabile!

[mcg256]

@ koksukay: It's called active or closed-loop control. Notice how the rocket nozzle is angling side to side as the rocket flies.

The flight control system takes data from a sensor that tells it how far its tilted off from vertical then uses this data to compensate by gymbaling the nozzle. Look it up on wikipedia.

[TheDeadlyKind]

is there anythign Carmack can't do?

[sanchezdot]

101/100 ;D

[knahero010]

that was amazing! great job!!

[rabidowski]

OMG!@!@ UFO!@!@!!

[couchjordan]

Would be more interesting if they dropped the lander from 30,000 ft and then watch it land smoothly. Great video. Great job!

[manofsan]

Kudos to Carmack & Co! Now all they need to do is team up with SpaceX and others, to send the first private mission to the Moon!

[pwbpeter]

Great rocket! steady as a rock.

I did not realise how big it was until the guy with the fire extiguisher turned up. Well done!