{"id":4223,"date":"2013-08-30T15:20:10","date_gmt":"2013-08-30T15:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4223"},"modified":"2013-08-30T15:20:10","modified_gmt":"2013-08-30T15:20:10","slug":"nasa-msfc-mighty-eagle-to-fly-today-morpheus-lander-video-of-latest-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4223","title":{"rendered":"NASA MSFC Mighty Eagle to fly today + Morpheus Lander video of latest test"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/lunarquest\/robotic\/index.html#.UiC3yH-TJFs\" target=\"_d\">Mighty Eagle<\/a> vertical takeoff and landing vehicle will try a tethered flight test today. See updates at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASAMightyEagle\" target=\"_d\">Mighty Eagle (NASAMightyEagle) on Twitter<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<\/p>\n<p>And here is a video of yesterday&#8217;s tethered flight test of the NASA JSC <a href=\"http:\/\/morpheuslander.jsc.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_d\">Project Morpheus<\/a> lander:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TxVL0NyYyKw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Caption:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Morpheus team successfully completed Tether Test 30 with the Bravo vehicle at Johnson Space Center on Thursday, August 29, 2013. All test objectives were met within the ~63 second flight including ignition, an ascent of 5 meters with 15 seconds of hover at the apex, a 3 meter backwards lateral translation, another 15 seconds of hover, and a forward slant descent to &#8220;landing&#8221; (at the end of the crane tether) using free flight guidance. The Morpheus team plans to travel to KSC in early October to begin our free flight test campaign!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center&#8217;s Mighty Eagle vertical takeoff and landing vehicle will try a tethered flight test today. See updates at Mighty Eagle (NASAMightyEagle) on Twitter. &#8212; And here is a video of yesterday&#8217;s tethered flight test of the NASA JSC Project Morpheus lander: Caption: The Morpheus team successfully completed Tether Test 30 with the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4223\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA MSFC Mighty Eagle to fly today + Morpheus Lander video of latest test<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rockets","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-167","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4159,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4159","url_meta":{"origin":4223,"position":0},"title":"Video: Morpheus Lander tethered flight test on Aug.23.13","author":"TopSpacer","date":"August 26, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a video of last Friday's tethered flight test of the Project Morpheus rocket VTOL vehicle: http:\/\/youtu.be\/0j37DIa1Ok0 Caption: Morpheus Bravo vehicle executed another successful tether test on August 23, 2013 as NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC). 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