In contrast to NASA’s unfortunate attempt today, Dave Masten is tweeting that they just flew Xombie 650 yards down range.

Apparently Morpheus crashed and burned in its first untethered flight. Armadillo and Masten often make this stuff look easy, but it’s not.

[Update a fewminutes later]

Here’s the video. Sounds like a tank blew up after a few seconds. Single engine, so had to be a failure of the gimbal or the controller.