mechatronic mayhem

One step closer to my flying robot baby marmosets…

“Using the GENIE (Guidance Embedded Navigator Integration Environment) System, Draper Laboratory raised Masten Space Systems’ Xombie suborbital rocket 50 meters to a stable hover, sent it laterally down range 50 meters, and then had it land safely during a controlled 50 meter descent. The testing, which exercised the autonomous guidance, navigation, and control technology needed to fly planetary landing trajectories, was conducted at the Mojave Air and Space Port in California.

The GENIE precision landing GN&C system was developed jointly between Draper and NASA’s Johnson Space Center (JSC) under the Autonomous Landing Hazard Avoidance Technology (ALHAT) effort, and is being flown under contract with NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program, which is managed by NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center.”

Rocket Garden.  Kennedy Space Center 11/26/11

Went to Jacksonville’s Sally Corp at the end of November.  Place blew my mind.

Best thing, by far, was a set of swamis that they were packaging up for an Indian temple…

http://sallycorp.com/