I’m back at Holloman, almost half past eight in the morning. In theory, Armadillo should have headed out to the pad for another attempt about half an hour ago, and will try again at nine or so. I’m heading out there now to see if that’s the case, and if so, I’ll get some pictures.

[Update at 10 AM]

Scrubbed again. The first flight was successful, except it had another hard start. On the return attempt, it lit, lifted off for a few seconds, then aborted and sat back down. They performed some analysis for a few minutes, then announced that they weren’t going to attempt to fly again until they returned the vehicle and did some work on it. The current word is that they had another hard start and some anomalous pops, and decided to abort. Alan Boyle has more.

I just talked to Ken Davidian, who is in charge of NASA’s Centennial Challenges (where the prize money comes from), and he told me that it looked as though they were going to give Armadillo two more attempt windows today, one this afternoon (like yesterday) and one after the show ends at five or so.

I have to drive up to Albuquerque tonight for a flight back to Florida early in the morning, and was hoping to do it in daylight (because I’ve never done the route from Alamagordo), so I hope that they can nail it this afternoon.