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[b]Project Morpheus[/b] Morpheus is an all NASA designed vehicle. It was manufactured and assembled on-site and at Armadillo Aerospace and was transported to JSC in January of this year. [URL=http://www.facebook.com/MorpheusLander?v=info&sk=info]Morpheus[/URL] is comparable in size to the Altair ascent stage and represents a full scale vehicle that would be capable of landing Robonaut or a similar sized payload to the lunar surface, performing all propellant burns after the trans lunar injection. The primary focus of the test bed is to demonstrate an integrated propulsion and GN&C system that can fly a lunar descent profile to exercise the Autonomous Landing and Hazard Avoidance Technology (ALHAT) safe landing sensors and closed-loop flight control. Additional objectives include technology demonstrations including tank material and manufacture, reaction control thrusters, main engine performance improvements, Helium pressurization systems, ground operations, flight operations, range safety, software and avionics architecture. It is a full spacecraft and has all the associated subsystems: avionics, software, GN&C, power, power distribution, structures, propulsion, and instrumentation. Almost every organization at JSC has contributed, support organizations were included and brought into the team purposely from the inception.
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