Draper's GENIE Free-Flight Test

Using the GENIE (Guidance Embedded Navigator Integration Environment) System, Draper Laboratory raised Masten Space Systems' Xombie suborbital rocket 50 meters to a stable hover, sent it laterally down range 50 meters, and then had it land safely during a controlled 50 meter descent. The testing, which exercised the autonomous guidance, navigation, and control technology needed to fly planetary landing trajectories, was conducted at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.




The GENIE precision landing GN&C system was developed jointly between Draper and NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC) under the Autonomous Landing Hazard Avoidance Technology (ALHAT) effort, and is being flown under contract with NASA's Flight Opportunities Program, which is managed by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center.

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[shaurz]

Such stable and controlled VTOL still seems like magic to me.

[UnTiedMusicStudio]

Fantastic stability! Congrats to Draper and Masten!

[SquirrelFromGradLife]

You're an idiot! The lunar lander was manually controlled by the astronauts. This thing is autonomously guided ie. there's a little bitty computerperson sitting inside a box steering, do you follow mate?

[Films4You]

Well done, hover and land rocket

[ColomboNinja]

just imagine what they dont show us

[Apxukoc]

Эм, стабилизация интересная, машинку не закрутило. Управление хорошее. +

[Flake01]

jaja windows Lander

[Robin Paterson]

Im not lookin at some of the OH THIS WAZ AROUND,.... Fairdinkum whr do i start. Anyone that watched that demo didnt say a thing about the truck load of visual info that struck me as amazing and timely.

Ok, noticed a distinct shape and sound from the propellant. Also the the sound wasnt correcting in harmony, db, or wavelength frequency.

That feat alone tells, confuses or intrigues?

Who can manover something as good as that.

[davenetdog]

Is graphene technology available yet as a viable stuctural component? It could help to allow for a larger payload.

[mxiaolei]

Hi Iron Man!

[之晖 晨]

NASA实在是太伟大了