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
Armadillo Crash at LLC Level 2
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