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Crowds are flooding through the gates here at Holloman Air Force Base for the Air and Space Expo/X Prize Cup.
Weather is wonderful…surely to get hot a little bit later today.
Early news right off the bat is that Armadillo’s first shot at the Northrop Grumman Lunar Lander Challenge has been delayed this morning. Looks like a later in the day type delay. Word is that the team is experiencing an igniter problem and will require a bit more time to fix the issue.
Fuel was already onboard the vehicle, with venting of the propellant visible once a delay was called.
Meanwhile, Orbital Outfitters unveiled their first commercial spacesuit - an Industrial Suborbital Space Suit-Crew (IS3C). The group’s first customer for the suit is XCOR Aerospace of Mojave, Calif.
Said one astronaut wannabe in waiting in looking at the suit: “It’ll make me look too big.”
October 27th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
Is there a webcast this year? Space.com talks about “complete coverage” but all I see are pre-recorded videos.
October 27th, 2007 at 1:38 pm
But where the heck is the webcast? I’ve been browsing for the past couple hours looking for where this year’s webcast is located on your site.
November 3rd, 2007 at 11:18 am
The X Prize Cup did not support a live webcast this year. Also, being there on site, the action regarding Armadillo was problematic, with large gaps between flight attempts - so that decision not to have a constant webcast was a good one, in my view.
I did the best I could with the blog activity - which was tough. The action was far away from wireless connections - so I lost a good bit of weight running back and forth. Lastly, the entire X Prize Cup was riding low on cash - and the pullout of Wirefly from a lead sponsorship was a financial blow.
LD