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    Prototype Lander Lands On Simulated Moon Terrain

    Published on Apr 25, 2014

    NASA's Morpheus lander logged a 98-second test flight on April 24th, 2014. As a test, Its Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology (ALHAT) calculated navigation solutions in flight, but the landing data was pre-programmed. -- 1st Free Flight Crash Lands: http://goo.gl/lnDIQ2

    Credit: NASA / JSC

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    Morpheus Completes Free Flight Test

    Published on Apr 30, 2014

    A free-flight test of the Morpheus prototype lander was conducted April 30 at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center using its recently installed autonomous landing and hazard avoidance technology (ALHAT) sensors.

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    Morpheus Free Flight 12

    Published on Apr 30, 2014

    The multi-center, integrated Morpheus/ALHAT team successfully completed Free Flight 12 (FF12) at the KSC SLF on Wednesday, April 30, 2014, Bravo's 10th and ALHAT's 3rd free flight. The autonomous Bravo vehicle flew essentially the same pre-programmed trajectory as in FF11 (800+ ft height, 1300+ ft downrange), with one significant exception; Bravo closed the loop on hazard detection and flew to the ALHAT Hazard Detection System (HDS) identified safe site. The ALHAT HDS identified its primary safe landing site 1.4m (4.5ft) east of the pad center and the vehicle then targeted that location for landing.

    FF12 was the 3rd free flight with ALHAT running in open-loop mode, using its sensors to calculate navigation solutions in real time during flight, though not yet actually navigating the vehicle. Bravo GNC flew the pre-planned trajectory, with the exception of targeting the HDS identified landing site.

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    Morpheus Makes Free Flight at Kennedy Space Center

    Published on May 22, 2014

    A free-flight test of the Morpheus prototype lander was conducted May 22 at the Shuttle Landing Facility at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The 97-second test began at 2:30 p.m. EDT with the Morpheus lander launching from the ground over a flame trench and ascending more than 800 feet safely touching down after covering approximately 1,300 feet.

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    Morpheus Free Flight 13

    Published on May 22, 2014

    The Morpheus/ALHAT team completed Free Flight 13 (FF13) at the KSC SLF on Thursday, May 22, 2014. This was Bravo's 11th and ALHAT's 4th free flight; the 1st with ALHAT running in closed-loop mode. For this test initial data indicated nominal performance of all Bravo systems, and of ALHAT Hazard Detection System (HDS), though not of the ALHAT navigation system. During flight, the ALHAT HDS scanned the Hazard Field and correctly identified a primary safe landing target within 0.5 m of the landing pad center, the best HDS safe site selection to date. As ALHAT navigated Bravo toward the selected landing target, the vehicle position calculated by ALHAT diverged from the "true" position calculated by Morpheus Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) until the error reached a trajectory corridor limit, at which point Bravo automatically reverted to Morpheus navigation for the remainder of the descent to the ALHAT landing target. Thus, FF13 successfully demonstrated ALHAT HDS performance and landing site selection (as in FF12), as well as the first in-flight down-mode from ALHAT to Morpheus navigation, but not yet complete ALHAT navigation to the landing site.

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    Project Morpheus Free Flight 14

    Published on May 29, 2014

    The Morpheus/ALHAT team successfully completed Free Flight 14 (FF14) at the KSC SLF on Wednesday, May 28, 2014, Bravo's 12th and ALHAT's 5th free flight -- and the first ever night flight. Initial data indicated nominal performance of all vehicle systems. The ALHAT Hazard Detection System (HDS) performed well, but identified a safe site just 0.5 m outside the conservatively established limits around the center of the landing pad. ALHAT then navigated the vehicle in closed-loop mode through the entire approach, with the vehicle taking over navigation during the descent phase of the trajectory when ALHAT was already dead-reckoning. Had less conservative position error limits allowed ALHAT to continue to navigate to landing, the vehicle still would have landed safely on the pad.

    The team overcame a few preflight issues, including a failed ignition due to a non-critical temperature limit exceedance, which was corrected for the successful second attempt.

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    Morpheus Soars in Free Flight 15

    Published on Dec 16, 2014

    NASA’s Project Morpheus prototype lander soars 800 feet above the north end of the Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on free flight test No. 15. During the 97-second test, onboard autonomous landing and hazard avoidance technology sensors, or ALHAT, surveyed the hazard field for safe landing sites, then guided the lander forward and downward to a successful landing.

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    Morpheus FF15

    Published on Dec 16, 2014

    The Morpheus/ALHAT team is back at the KSC SLF to conduct Free Flight 15 (FF15), the first free flight since May 28, the 6th with our ALHAT sensor suite onboard, and a third attempt at completing a historic closed-loop ALHAT flight.

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    Real Martians Moment: Morpheus - Landing on Mars

    Published on Oct 16, 2015

    Morpheus is the world's first prototype lander that uses liquid oxygen and liquid methane as a means of propulsion. Jenny Devolites , of Johnson Space Center is the Morpheus Lander Test Conductor and Systems Engineering and Integration Lead. She is responsible for creating tests that will ensure a safe landing by Morpheus on Mars and it's safe return to earth.

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