With engineers and officials from NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory watching, Masten Space Systems' XA-0.1B 'Xombie' took to the sky again in the fall of 2013. The Sept. 20 flight at the Mojave Air and Space Sport in the California desert was the conclusion of the test campaign to assess the performance of JPL's Guidance for Fuel Optimal Large Diverts (G-FOLD) algorithm under mission conditions. More ambitious than the previous flights, this test had the Xombie vehicle initially travel diagonally away from the target landing site.
Read more...
No comments:
Post a Comment