The landing facility provides the lander with the kind of field necessary for realistic testing, complete with rocks, craters and hazards to avoid.
Project Morpheus tests NASA’s ALHAT and an engine that runs on liquid oxygen and methane, or green propellants, into a fully-operational lander that could deliver cargo to other planetary surfaces. Morpheus landed 10 inches west of its intended target. The lander flew forward, covering 633 feet while performing a 55-foot divert to emulate a hazard avoidance maneuver before descending and landing on a dedicated pad inside the automated landing and hazard avoidance technology, or ALHAT, hazard field. EST with the Morpheus lander launching from the ground over a flame trench and ascending to 465 feet.
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– Engineers and technicians prepare the Project Morpheus prototype lander for its sixth free flight test from a launch pad at the north end of the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. US Navy (USN) ENSIGN (ENS) David Ziegler (center) explains the capabilities of the Telescopic Alidade onboard the USS CURTS (FFG 38) to Royal Thai Navy (RTN) ENS Sikabhum Krataitong (left) and RTN CHIEF PETTY Officer Second Class (PO2), Bunkurd Wannoo, during Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Exercise 2001 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.
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