{"id":4548,"date":"2013-09-20T18:16:10","date_gmt":"2013-09-20T18:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4548"},"modified":"2013-09-20T18:17:01","modified_gmt":"2013-09-20T18:17:01","slug":"nasa-mighty-eagle-and-masten-xombie-rocket-vehicles-flown-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4548","title":{"rendered":"NASA Mighty Eagle and Masten Xombie rocket vehicles flown today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mighty Eagle vertical takeoff and landing rocket vehicle made another test flight at Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama today. The lander was developed by designed and developed by NASA and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jhuapl.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\">JHU\/APL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>That had lots of posts and pictures at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASAMightyEagle\" target=\"_d\">Mighty Eagle (NASAMightyEagle) on Twitter<\/a>. For example:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASAMightyEagle\/status\/381073239054630912\/photo\/1\" target=\"_d\">Twitter \/ NASAMightyEagle:\u00a0 <\/a>Midair with no dust. Should have gotten a bunch of stereo camera pictures of the hazard field! <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/41Due4MqbW\" data-pre-embedded=\"true\">pic.twitter.com\/41Due4MqbW<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASAMightyEagle\/status\/381073239054630912\/photo\/1\/large\" data-url=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/BUnYF3-CUAAVY2q.jpg:large\" data-resolved-url-large=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/BUnYF3-CUAAVY2q.jpg:large\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Embedded image permalink\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/BUnYF3-CUAAVY2q.jpg\" width=\"435\" height=\"290\" \/> <\/a><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASAMightyEagle\/status\/381082111907594241\/photo\/1\" target=\"_d\">Twitter \/ NASAMightyEagle:<\/a> Landing with style. <a dir=\"ltr\" href=\"http:\/\/t.co\/WtnT3aKimT\" data-pre-embedded=\"true\">pic.twitter.com\/WtnT3aKimT<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NASAMightyEagle\/status\/381082111907594241\/photo\/1\/large\" data-url=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/BUngKWbCAAEk01Q.jpg:large\" data-resolved-url-large=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/BUngKWbCAAEk01Q.jpg:large\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"Embedded image permalink\" src=\"https:\/\/pbs.twimg.com\/media\/BUngKWbCAAEk01Q.jpg\" width=\"435\" height=\"290\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<p>Here is a video of the\u00a0 test. The first four minutes of the video are just of the flight of the quadcopter with the camera. The ME flight starts around 4 minutes into the video:<\/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\/F4hYvQSqrrc?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>===<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masten-space.com\" target=\"_d\">Masten Space<\/a> flew their <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Masten_Space_Systems#Xombie\" target=\"_blank\">Xombie vehicle<\/a> in Mojave today presumably for a project with NASA JPL and Draper Labs &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mastenspace\/status\/381096907419811840\" target=\"_d\">Twitter \/ mastenspace:<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Great day for flying. Just finished what may be Xombie&#8217;s farthest flight. ~800m Data review pending<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mighty Eagle vertical takeoff and landing rocket vehicle made another test flight at Marshall Spaceflight Center in Huntsville, Alabama today. The lander was developed by designed and developed by NASA and JHU\/APL. That had lots of posts and pictures at Mighty Eagle (NASAMightyEagle) on Twitter. For example: Twitter \/ NASAMightyEagle:\u00a0 Midair with no dust. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4548\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">NASA Mighty Eagle and Masten Xombie rocket vehicles flown today<\/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":[15,5,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-space-infrastructure","category-rockets","category-space-systems"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-1bm","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4293,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=4293","url_meta":{"origin":4548,"position":0},"title":"NASA Mighty Eagle VTOL rocket vehicle test","author":"TopSpacer","date":"September 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"The\u00a0Mighty Eagle vertical takeoff and landing rocket powered vehicle project at NASA Marshall Spaceflight Center is planning a test flight today. 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