34K views · Jun 7, 2010 · 1:15 · 2 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2010–2014
A four-pane view of Armadillo Aerospace's Mod vehicle on a June 2010 boosted hop. The flight includes engine shutdown, drogue chute deployment, an engine restart and a safe landing.
Why Hacker News points people here: Cited as an example of impressive amateur-scale rocket work, and as a vertical-landing test that predates and rivals SpaceX's Grasshopper.
“this [1] test by Armadillo was more impressive in my opinion for the additional complexity involved”HN comment, 2012
“this [1] test by Armadillo was more impressive in my opinion for the additional complexity involved”
Armadillo test with engine cut, chute deploy and successful landing
Bigger but this [1] test by Armadillo was more impressive in my opinion for the additional complexity involved in cutting the engine deploying a chute then cutting the chute and successfully landing from a turbulent freefall. [1] this video
“here's a cool video from one of armadillo's test rockets”
Test flight footage from an Armadillo rocket
This exchange made me grin :) To add some value to my comment, here's a cool video from one of armadillo's test rockets: this video
Armadillo rocket test flight as an example of impressive work
I felt the same way until i read a post from a HN user about "being mediocre and it's OK". Not being a rocket scientist doesn't mean i can't build great stuff too, i'll just never do something like this :) this video
