{"id":6435,"date":"2014-02-11T00:01:46","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T00:01:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6435"},"modified":"2014-02-11T00:01:46","modified_gmt":"2014-02-11T00:01:46","slug":"video-nasa-morpheus-rocket-vehicles-5th-free-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6435","title":{"rendered":"Video: NASA Morpheus rocket vehicle&#8217;s 5th free flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/morpheuslander.jsc.nasa.gov\/\" target=\"_d\">Project Morpheus<\/a>\u00a0flew their\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.armadilloaerospace.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Armadillo Aerospace<\/a>\u00a0quad-style vertical takeoff and landing rocket vehicle today at Kennedy Space Center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The multi-center Morpheus Team successfully completed Free Flight7 (FF7) at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) on Monday, February 10, 2014. FF7, the 5th free flight of the Bravo vehicle, flew to 467 feet (142m), altitude and then traversed 637 feet (194m) in 30 seconds before landing in the hazard field. Initial data indicated a nominal flight meeting all test objectives. The vehicle flew its pre-planned trajectory flawlessly, reaching a max ascent velocity of 13 m\/s, and landing with no appreciable deviation from its intended target 74 seconds after launch.\u00a0<\/em><\/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\/bXsl7dnY85w?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s\u00a0Project Morpheus\u00a0flew their\u00a0Armadillo Aerospace\u00a0quad-style vertical takeoff and landing rocket vehicle today at Kennedy Space Center. The multi-center Morpheus Team successfully completed Free Flight7 (FF7) at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) on Monday, February 10, 2014. FF7, the 5th free flight of the Bravo vehicle, flew to 467 feet (142m), altitude and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6435\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: NASA Morpheus rocket vehicle&#8217;s 5th free flight<\/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-6435","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-1FN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6090,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6090","url_meta":{"origin":6435,"position":0},"title":"Videos: NASA Morpheus rocket vehicle flies again","author":"TopSpacer","date":"January 17, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"NASA's\u00a0Project Morpheus\u00a0flew their Armadillo Aerospace\u00a0quad-style vertical takeoff and landing rocket vehicle again on Thursday at Kennedy Space Center. 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