{"id":6857,"date":"2014-03-12T05:15:48","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T05:15:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6857"},"modified":"2014-03-12T05:15:48","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T05:15:48","slug":"videos-morpheus-vtvl-rocket-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6857","title":{"rendered":"Videos: Morpheus VTVL rocket test"},"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 on Tuesday at Kennedy Space Center. Here are a couple of videos of the flight;<\/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\/Iq1YAMMT5_g?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><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\/GWx8SgmAZNA?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 to the latter video:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><em>The Morpheus team successfully completed Free Flight 9 (FF9) the KSC SLF on Tuesday, March 11, 2014. This was the final flight before integration of ALHAT sensors on Bravo vehicle. FF9 was Morpheus&#8217; highest (177 m = 581 ft, higher than the VAB &amp; Washington Monument), fastest (13.4 m\/s = 30 mph vertical &amp; horizontal) and farthest (255 m = 837 ft) flight to date.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NASA\u2019s\u00a0Project Morpheus\u00a0flew their\u00a0Armadillo Aerospace\u00a0quad-style vertical takeoff and landing rocket vehicle on Tuesday at Kennedy Space Center. Here are a couple of videos of the flight; Caption to the latter video: The Morpheus team successfully completed Free Flight 9 (FF9) the KSC SLF on Tuesday, March 11, 2014. This was the final flight before integration of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6857\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Videos: Morpheus VTVL rocket 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-6857","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-1MB","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6090,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=6090","url_meta":{"origin":6857,"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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