the vehicle can see that motion, and
make sure they are coming to the
right solution without actually lighting
the north end of the Shuttle Landing
Facility on December 10, 2013 to
solo.
and it lands right where it is supposed
to.
Morpheus made another “closed
begins as the engine of the lander
to about 800 feet in altitude, there
it hovers and does what is called its
time though it occurred at night,
proving that the lander will perform
sure the lander knows where it is in
is capable of, if needed, entering a
faster, and further in an 82 second
then moves toward the designated
landing area which is a quarter of
a mile away from the takeoff spot.
which brings us back to where this
journey started, at Kennedy Space
making sure things look good.
While the lander has a designated
an appropriate landing spot, or
landing on the dark side of a planet,
moon, or an asteroid, where little to
no light shines.
So what comes after the testing
this one is different than all of the
prior 12 since all of those have been
already programmed, that site is
littered with boulders and Morpheus
should decide that it is not a viable
landing spot. Using the information
spectacularly on its single rocket
balancing on the end of a straw.
about 50 feet in altitude, hovering
in place before moving to a landing
takeoff spot, landing after about 50
speculated on that during our visit,
could jump in and take over if need
test, Morpheus will be in complete
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a concrete pad covered in simulated
that we can do to continue to evolve
sensors, we will have demonstrated
ready for a mission to pick them up
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