Project Morpheus : Blog

BY MORPHEUS OPS LEAN, IAN YOUNG (@ICYPROP) Hey Morpheus fans! In this write-up I’ll take you through a test day in a fair amount of detail. Most of you only get insight into the last 20 or so...

http://morpheuslander.blogspot.com/2014/04/a-typical-morpheus-test-day.html

BY MORPHEUS OPS LEAD, IAN YOUNG Test days are obviously a busy time for the Morpheus team. This blog is to give all of you some insight into who the players are. In a future blog we’ll brin...

http://morpheuslander.blogspot.com/2014/02/test-day-roles-and-responsibilities.html

A note from Jenny Devolites, SE&I Lead for Morpheus, after a successful Free Flight Campaign in December... As everyone who follows Morpheus knows, our first Morpheus “Campaign Zero” free f...

http://morpheuslander.blogspot.com/2014/01/greatness-on-horizon.html

The roar of a 5,000lb rocket engine has returned to the Johnson Space Center. The Morpheus team has completed the build-up of our “Bravo” vehicle, conducted numerous integrated tests, and has...

http://morpheuslander.blogspot.com/2013/05/and-so-we-begin-again.html

The Morpheus team has been hard at work preparing for this year’s series of tests and building the new Morpheus 1.5B and 1.5C vehicles.  We have been busy assembling the vehicle structures, wi...

http://morpheuslander.blogspot.com/2013/02/hard-at-work.html

>>  "A SHIP IN HARBOR IS SAFE, BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT SHIPS ARE BUILT >>  FOR."  >>   >>   -JOHN AUGUSTUS SHEDD On Thursday we made our second free flight attempt with th...

http://morpheuslander.blogspot.com/2012/08/moving-forward-not-starting-over.html

The Morpheus team successfully flew our first tether test at Kennedy Space Center on Friday August 3rd.  The objectives for this flight, along with the dry and wet runs earlier in the week, were...

http://morpheuslander.blogspot.com/2012/08/tether-test-20-first-ksc-flight.html

NASA's Project Morpheus lander is moving one step closer to achieving autonomous flight and landing. After undergoing testing at Johnson Space Center in Houston for nearly a year, Morpheus arrive...

http://morpheuslander.blogspot.com/2012/08/morpheus-lander-begins-testing-at.html

Dolores Petropulos After retiring from the Orlando police force, Dolores Petropulos aimed for a new career in computer science. An internship with NASA's Undergraduate Student Research Proje...

http://morpheuslander.blogspot.com/2012/06/blazing-new-trail.html

Sometimes I think that taking the exploration work we do to the public is as important for us as it is for them. Explorer We'd cordoned off three sides of Morpheus at Space Center today to ...

http://morpheuslander.blogspot.com/2012/06/engineers-in-training.html

The words "hazard field" certainly never were associated with the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. To the contrary, the goal was to keep the runway area free o...

http://morpheuslander.blogspot.com/2012/04/look-out-for-those-rocks.html

After sticking to the ground for upgrades the past several months, the Project Morpheus prototype lander took to the skies at Johnson Space Center again on Tuesday. Since its last round of tes...

http://morpheuslander.blogspot.com/2012/03/testing-picks-back-up.html

In a previous blog post we discussed the importance of testing, but sometimes delays are just as important. Right now for Morpheus the best decision has been to slow down and analyze our systems ...

http://morpheuslander.blogspot.com/2011/08/delays-as-important-as-testing.html

Morpheus is still early in its test phase.  The side by side video comparison below demonstrates the progression of improvements that Morpheus has made in its first four tethered tests.  From o...

http://morpheuslander.blogspot.com/2011/06/tethered-test-comparison.html

In this fifth hover test of the vertical test bed Morpheus. Morpheus ran for the full 30 seconds of hover time. This was a very successful test with a near perfect hover. Download HD MOV : Down...

http://morpheuslander.blogspot.com/2011/06/fifth-tethered-hover-flight.html

Download HD MOV : Download WMV Another tethered test of the Morpheus vertical test bed. This flight was on Innovation Day at Johnson Space Center. We had around 300 onlookers during this tes...

http://morpheuslander.blogspot.com/2011/05/test-iterate-test-again.html

Only six days after the last test where the vehicle traveled on an unexpected trajectory, the Morpheus team was ready to test again. While not a perfect run, the drastic improvement shows how thi...

http://morpheuslander.blogspot.com/2011/05/only-six-days.html

Today the Morpheus team attempted a hover test under tether.  This test was the next incremental step in a series of planned tests leading to free flight.  Among previous tests were component t...

http://morpheuslander.blogspot.com/2011/04/this-is-why-we-test.html