Another NewSpace fatality...

[no_way]

http://hobbyspace.com/nucleus/index.php?itemid=4394<br /><br />Texel is dead, R.I.P<br />

 

[docm]

<blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>A problem in the ground contact shutoff logic resulted in the vehicle not stopping the engine after a hard landing during a tethered flying test. A separate problem with the GPS logic caused the vehicle instead to accelerate back off the ground.<br /> /><br /><blockquote><font class="small">In reply to:</font><hr /><p>It made a fireball that would make any Hollywood movie proud, but the vehicle didn't launch itself back off the ground, make an earth-shattering kaboom, or throw any shrapnel.<p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><p><hr /></p></p></blockquote><br /><br />Wonder if the same guys write NVIDIA's drivers? <img src="/images/icons/tongue.gif" /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> </div>

 

[windnwar]

lol nah.... I'd bet on it being Ati's driver team! hehe <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><font size="2" color="#0000ff">""Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein"</font></p> </div>

 

[PistolPete]

While this is a bummer, this is by far nowhere near the end of Armadillo. Carmack and Co. are far too resilient for that. <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p> </p><p><em>So, again we are defeated. This victory belongs to the farmers, not us.</em></p><p><strong>-Kambei Shimada from the movie Seven Samurai</strong></p> </div>

 

[no_way]

of course, and its not the first vehicle they crashed. Its just that Texel was a personality, sort of <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br />good thing it wasnt Pixel, who did most of the heavy lifting trying to bag last years LLC. <br /><br />BTW, here is a more elaborate account of the mishap<br />http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn12522-crash-destroys-rocket-ahead-of-x-prize-contest.html

 

[moonmadness]

Nvidia with Armadillo. <img src="/images/icons/smile.gif" /><br /><br /> <div class="Discussion_UserSignature"> <p>I'm not a rocket scientist, but I do play one on the TV in my mind.</p> </div>