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Amazing video of Morpheus FreeFlight 9 (http://youtu.be/GWx8SgmAZNA) at KSC

ЦитироватьBuilding on the progress of NASA's partnerships with the U.S. commercial space industry to develop new spacecraft and rockets capable of delivering cargo -- and soon, astronauts to low Earth orbit -- the agency recognizes the U.S. industry's interest in reaching and exploring the moon, and is now looking for opportunities to spur commercial cargo transportation capabilities to the surface of the moon.
NASA has released an announcement seeking proposals to partner in the development of commercial robotic lunar lander capabilities. Such capabilities could support commercial activities on the moon while enabling new science and exploration missions of interest to the larger scientific and academic communities.
NASA's new Lunar Cargo Transportation and Landing by Soft Touchdown (Lunar CATALYST) initiative calls for proposals from the U.S. private sector that would lead to one or more no-funds exchanged Space Act Agreements (SAA). The purpose of these SAAs would be to encourage the development of robotic lunar landers that can be integrated with U.S. commercial launch capabilities to deliver small and medium class payloads to the lunar surface.

ЦитироватьОпубликовано 02 апр. 2014 г.
 
 
NASA's prototype lander Morpheus successfully completed its 7th free flight at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Wednesday, April 2. The lander, fueled by methane and oxygen, both considered "green" propellants, does not carry a crew, but is autonomously controlled and carries its own hazard avoidance system (ALHAT) to pick out safe landing spots. The craft ascended more than 800 feet before moving forward 1300 feet while its ALHAT sensors passively located safe sites for a descent and landing. In future flights ALHAT will take over and land Morpheus. The flight lasted about 96 seconds and continues the Johnson Space Center-based team's steady progress through the Morpheus test flight campaign.
 

ЦитироватьThe Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology project will provide a state-of-the-art automated descent and landing system for planetary lander craft.

Precision landing will be based on a sophisticated, surface-tracking sensor suite with real-time hazard avoidance capabilities -- assessing altitude and velocity of the descending vehicle and the topography of the landing site.

ALHAT algorithms combined with sensor date will navigate the descending craft to the "pre-mission landing aim point," where it will quickly and autonomously identify safe landing areas and help guide the craft to touchdown.

The technology provides an unprecedented procedure for safe planetary landing procedures -- for future crewed as well as robotic missions.

The technology works in any lighting conditions -- from the harsh glare of an unshielded sun to the cloudy, gaseous murk of a distant solar system body

ЦитироватьThe Morpheus/ALHAT team successfully completed Free Flight 11 (FF1) at the KSC Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF) on Thursday, 24-Apr-2014, the Bravo vehicle's 9th and the ALHAT system's 2nd free flight test.

In FF11, as in FF10, ALHAT operated in open-loop mode, imaging the Hazard Field and calculating navigation solutions in real time during flight, though not yet navigating the vehicle, meaning Bravo autonomously flew a pre-programmed trajectory as before. ALHAT engineers will use this flight data to continue tuning and improving their system performance.

Successful open-loop ALHAT flights, including FF12 next week, will lead to closed-loop ALHAT free flights planned for late May, in which ALHAT will "take the stick", diverting Bravo from an initial "unsafe" landing point and navigating to a safe landing site within the Hazard Field at the KSC SLF.

ЦитироватьSonic пишет:

И ??? В твиттере пишут вроде отлетались хорошо? Хоть бы картинку выложили...

ЦитироватьSonic пишет:
Вообще там же вроде лазер используется, а ему должно быть пофиг день или ночь. Ночью даже круче - засветки нету.

Цитироватьche wi пишет:
lidar

ЦитироватьNASA's @MorpheusLander has declared flight campaign a success. Vehicle staying at KSC through summer, could fly again pending FY15 funding.

ЦитироватьAndrey Samoilov пишет:
Возобновили https://twitter.com/MorpheusLander