Armadillo Aerospace
| Headquarters | 18601 LBJ FWY, Suite 460 Mesquite , TX 75150 United States |
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Armadillo Aerospace, is a NewSpace company in the Aerospace industry.
Company Heritage
The company was founded by John Carmak in 2000. It is based in Mesquite, Texas.
In their own words: "Armadillo Aerospace is a small research and development team working on computer-controlled LOX/ethanol rocket vehicles, with an eye towards manned suborbital vehicle development in the coming years."[1] The company's mascot is an armadillo named Widget.
The company has been very good at keeping the space development community updated on thier progress and expectations. Their website has a great deal of detail on almost every aspect of thier activities.
Products and Services
Arrmadillo Aerospace is currently a research and development company that provides no product for commercial sales. Current revenue is from individual owner contributions and sponsorships
Their current vehicles that they are using in the NASA Centennial Challenges, are called "Pixel" and "Trixel"
Historical Events
- First Rocket Test Flight July 2001?
- X Prize Cup October 2005 - One test flight at the event of a engineering test rocket.
- X Prize Cup October 2006 - Their "Pixel" rocket platform, almost won the Lunar Lander Challenge NASA Centennial Challenge.
Joint Ventures and Partnerships
Armadillo has entered into a sponsorship deal with NVIDIA, a leader in graphic interfaces for high performance desktop computers.
Future Plans
Armadillo plans to compete in the 2007 X Prize event, October 2007, in New Mexico, USA.
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See Also
- JP Aerospace
- Masten Space Systems
- SpaceX - Space Exploratino Technologies, NewSpace company working on private orbital flight.
- Scaled Composites - Winner of the first X Prize.
- XCOR Aerospace
- List of Aerospace Companies