"The reason is fairly clear to me.   The Iris and Iris+ were very poor products, and tech support didn't match their poor failure rate.  They were dangerously underperformant for their own weight, let alone the weight of a payload.   Thus sales were…"

"I tried something similar with a Powershot S100 - and 2/3rds of the images were unusably fuzzy."

"Agreed. I think Trent and the team did pretty well to even get that far. I backed his IndieGoGo campaign, and I'd do it again in a heart beat!!! They tried hard, but stopped at the right point. Here's to trying again!!"

"Rob - you might be able to make a moral case if 3DR itself had not just contributed to, but also heavily benefited from the open source nature of the platforms involved.  People not paid by 3DR contribute to their code - and in doing so improve the…"

"Jani - fins?  You mean the landing legs? CF and Al honeycomb.  They deploy out from the side of the 1st stage after it's launched.  In this test, obviously, they're pre-deployed."

"Robert - this isn't a launch pad. It's just a testing landing pad for tests of this nature.  They have launch facilities at CCAFS at KSC ( one pad in use, one ex-Shuttle pad just leased for 20 years ), VAFB, Kwajalein Atoll, and there is talk of a…"

"I ordered a RTFhawk 2.4.3 from them a week ago.  No updates since. No reply to my emails asking when it might dispatch.   Not sure what 'reputable' means these days, but I don't think it's that."