ERPS members fly the KISS Beta test vehicle at Fresno Tripoli HPR meet.
Members of ERPS check out the static engine test facilities at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry site in Mojave.
About a dozen ERPS members got a tour of SpaceX Headquarters in Hawthorne, CA.
E.R.P.S. members from the K.I.S.S. vehicle team prep the static stand at F.A.R. for an engine firing.
The X Prize Foundation posted a statement about the 2009 Lunar Lander CHallenge Monday that announces an end to the “gather and show” approach to the competitions. For 2009 (and presumably beyond), the X Prize Judges will travel to the
I came across this ESA animation and thought it might be interesting. After being launched into space, the IXV – or Intermediate eXperimental Vehicle – will return to earth as if from a low-Earth orbit mission, testing brand-new European atmospheric
The Armadillo Aerospace Team stands with their Big Check (non-negotiable) and their vehicle after winning the Level 1 Lunar Lander Challenge at Las Cruses, NM October 24th, 2008. The details of the victory and the Level 2 flight attempt the
Personal Spaceflight blog is reporting that TrueZer0 failed on their first attempt at the LLC Level 1 Competition. Update 12:10 pm MDT: The vehicle took off and flew upwards for several seconds, then lost power and crashed. There was a
Armadillo, Rocket Racing League and Spaceport America announced October 23rd that they will partner to begin commercial suborbital flights in 2010, at a customer price of $100,000 per seat. In a press release, Armadillo Aerospace announced they will develop the
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,
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
Ron Cowen has an article in Science News about water at the Lunar South Pole. “The Japanese spacecraft Kaguya finds no visible evidence that a lunar south pole crater holds ice” the article starts out. It seems the Japanese probe
Attending: Michael W, Julie P, Dan S, Stellan L, Gerald N. Call to order: 8:03 pm at the home of G. Nordley.
Attending: D. Weinshenker, S. Longstrom, J. Porter, D. Solvin, M. Wallis, G. Nordley Call to order: 8:25 pm at the home of G. Nordley.