Advertisement
www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/.../News
'Trashed a vehicle
It’s been a while, but we pretty much trashed a vehicle last month. We were doing the first test of the “super mod” with completely full propellant tanks and an external high pressure helium tank with a computer controlled high pressure valve for tank pressure regulation. The goal for this design is to get enough performance from one of the modules to do the level 2 lunar lander challenge without having to use Pixel, because we still worry a lot about slosh and propellant balance on the quad vehicles. Moving to external pressurization is also one of the major performance growth paths for us in the future, so it is a useful development direction.'
after math:
media.armadilloaerospace.com/200....jpg
'Trashed a vehicle
It’s been a while, but we pretty much trashed a vehicle last month. We were doing the first test of the “super mod” with completely full propellant tanks and an external high pressure helium tank with a computer controlled high pressure valve for tank pressure regulation. The goal for this design is to get enough performance from one of the modules to do the level 2 lunar lander challenge without having to use Pixel, because we still worry a lot about slosh and propellant balance on the quad vehicles. Moving to external pressurization is also one of the major performance growth paths for us in the future, so it is a useful development direction.'
after math:
media.armadilloaerospace.com/200....jpg
posted by:
|
St. Louis
|
Advertisement
Advertisement
