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Armadillo Flies... Briefly

Posted by michael on from the lawn-dart dept.

david.given writes "Armadillo Aerospace did their first untethered test flight last week, at the Oklahoma Spaceport, using their new tube-shaped rocket. Predicted height was fifteen hundred feet; unfortunately a computer failure caused the vehicle to tip over and dive into the ground from a hundred feet up, causing severe damage (i.e., it requires a rebuild, not a repair). See the report and the slightly depressing video footage."

2 of 305 comments (clear)

  1. WTF? by Arctic+Fox · · Score: 0, Troll

    Ahem.. Aren't all rockets tube shaped?

  2. Re:Really has to be asked by stevejsmith · · Score: 0, Troll

    I could understand if the computer just fell apart or blew up, but it didn't. It was a bug. A dumbass programmer forgot to put a semi-colon at the end of the damn line.