Mojave Airport & Spaceport

...by achieving accurate landings and captured the first place prize during flights of their "Xoie" (pronounced "Zoey") vehicle Oct. 30 at the Mojave Air and Space Port. Masten also claimed a $150,000 prize as part of the Level 1 competition.

In this article: X Prize Foundation, NASA, Armadillo Aerospace, Lunar Lander Challenge, Masten Space Systems, Washington, and Northrop Grumman Corporation

...hauling cargo: He wants to travel in space on his own ship. "Solar system domination," he joked in an interview this week at the Mojave Air and Space Port, site of the competition. "Nothing less will do." The Lunar Lander Challenge...

In this article: Masten Space Systems, NASA, International Space Station, Armadillo Aerospace, John Carmack, Mojave Air and Space Port, and Dallas

...competition. After days of technical problems and then a fire, a robotic rocket named Xoie made two flights between landing pads at Mojave Air & Space Port on Friday to qualify for top money in the latest X Prize contest. Xoie was built...

In this article: Armadillo Aerospace, California, Masten Space Systems, NASA, Mojave, Mojave Air & Space Port, and Texas

...and engineering services. The company's 6000 square foot production facility and 200,000 square foot testing facility is located on the Mojave Air and Space Port. The company designs and builds aerospace solutions that focus on durability,...

In this article: Masten Space Systems, Jonathan Goff, Northrop Grumman, Department of Defense, Mojave, CA, Mojave Air and Space Port, and California

...before a fire thwarted the attempt to win a $1 million prize. Masten Space Systems' Xoie, a robotic rocket, took off from a launch pad at Mojave Air & Space Port and flew to another pad where it set down on its legs among large boulders as...

In this article: X Prize Foundation, Masten Space Systems, California, Helium, Oxygen, Lunar Lander Challenge, Armadillo Aerospace, and NASA

...One of the Lunar Lander Challenge and the $150,000 second-place purse. Its vehicle, called "Xombie," lifted off from a launch pad at the Mojave Air and Space Port on Wednesday. The 715-pound lunar lander prototype climbed to an altitude of 53...

In this article: Lunar Lander Challenge, Armadillo Aerospace, Masten Space Systems, Wired.com, NASA, and Mojave Air and Space Port

...by The X Prize Foundation shows The Masten Space System rocket XA-0.1B, also called "Xombie" sitting on the launch pad at the Mojave Air & Space Port. Mojave, Calif. The privately developed unmanned rocket has made two successful...

In this article: X Prize Foundation, Masten Space Systems, Mojave, Mojave Air & Space Port, and California

Private rocket flies in lunar lander contest MOJAVE, Calif. A privately developed unmanned rocket has made two successful flights at Mojave Air and Space Port to qualify for one of the purses in an X Prize contest simulating aspects of...

In this article: X Prize Foundation, NASA, Masten Space Systems, Armadillo Aerospace, Northrop Grumman, Mojave Air and Space Port, and California

He and four other Virgin Galactic customers got a peek at SpaceShipTwo this summer during a visit to the Scaled Composites plant at the Mojave Airport, where it is being built by maverick aviation designer Burt Rutan. At the time it was the...

In this article: Virgin Galactic, Will Whitehorn, X Prize, Scaled Composites, Alan Walton, Burt Rutan, and Ansari X Prize

...an engine problem forced its developers to call off the attempt until next month. The flight of Masten Space Systems' unmanned "Xombie" at Mojave Air and Space Port comes just days after another competitor, Armadillo Aerospace, qualified...

In this article: X Prize Foundation, NASA, Masten Space Systems, Armadillo Aerospace, Peter Diamandis, Mojave Air and Space Port, Los Angeles, and Texas