We’ve received a number of inquiries about precision landing and why it’s important to us – shouldn’t we be focusing on high altitude suborbital vehicles? The short version is that it addresses a major market need and provides near-term customers for us as we develop our long-term launch capability. That said, it also is an [...]
As our team got ready to head home for the holidays yesterday, we took a minute to decorate Xaero and take a picture. From all of us at Masten to you, we wish you a safe and Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, and some relaxing downtime for you and yours! See you in 2012!
As November has rolled into December, we’re still on the warpath testing rockets and making some good progress we’ll share with you soon. As you might be aware, Masten has received multiple contracts from the Flight Opportunities Program, which pays for flights aboard reusable suborbital vehicles for qualified research experiments. The program has an open [...]
Hello, November skies! We’ve been quiet. Probably too quiet! It seems that’s what happens when you’re really busy… Here’s a glimpse inside what’s going on at Masten. I wanted to take half a second and pull back the curtain to show you a bit of what’s happening inside the black box that is Masten Space [...]
MASTEN SPACE SYSTEMS SIGNS CONTRACT WITH SPACE FLORIDA FOR DEMONSTRATION LAUNCHES Masten to Perform Launches from LC-36 CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (May 19, 2011) – Masten Space Systems and Space Florida announced today the signing of a $400,000 contract under which Masten will perform a series of demonstration flights of a Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) [...]
Our latest vehicle, Xaero is a restacked Xoie with a carbon fiber aeroshell and an updated all aluminum engine.
Masten Space Systems and Space Florida announced the signing of a Letter of Intent to explore demonstration launches from Launch Complex 36 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Popular Science has picked Xombie as one of Best of What’s New for 2010 in the Aerospace and Defense category!
Because of our success last year with the Lunar Lander Challenge, we’ve seen an increase in interest in our employees. Personnel changes were not unexpected and we take it as a great compliment that our competitors have interest in all of our team members, including technicians. We’re obviously doing something right when our folks are [...]
Masten Space Systems Wins NASA Suborbital Contract MOJAVE, Calif., August 31 /PRNewswire/ — Masten Space Systems, a leader in vertical take off, vertical landing (VTVL) rocket vehicles, announced a contract today with NASA’s new Commercial Reusable Suborbital Research (CRuSR) program. The initial contract is for four flights of test payloads on Xaero, Masten’s next-generation vehicle [...]
