NASA’s Morpheus experimental rocket-powered vertical takeoff and landing testbed is scheduled to resume testing in November after successfully completing a series of free flights earlier this year. Morpheus is one of the agency’s projects to develop technologies enhancing the capabilities and reliability of interplanetary surface exploration missions. Following successful flight testing with the Morpheus Bravo […]
NASA officials are calling today’s near-space test flight of the agency’s Low-Density Supersonic Decelerator (LDSD) a success despite the fact that an experimental supersonic parachute failed to deploy during the test, which occurred off the coast of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific Missile Range Facility in Kauai, Hawaii. The June 28 test was the first of […]
