John Carmack and the Armadillo Aerospace team failed in their first attempt to win the Lunar Lander Challenge Level 2 Competition. According to several blogs from the site, the QUAD vehicle had an engine abort at ignition and tipped over,
Armadillo Wins LLC Level 1
After two years of near-misses, Armadillo Aerospace won a $350,000 prize Friday in an rocket contest created by NASA to encourage the development of new lunar lander prototypes. The rules for the challenge’s Level 1 contest call for teams to
“Fourth time’s a charm” For SpaceX
Number four seems to have done the job for SpaceX as their fourth Falcon 1 launch attempt was a success and became the first privately developed space launch vehicle to reach orbit. The data showed they achieved a super precise
Armadillo Progress
CosmicLog has an article up about the Rocket Racing League, that mentions (among other things) that Carmack’s Armadillo Aerospace will be supplying engines for the RRL, possibly as early as their first demo flights Aug. 1st and 2nd at the