SpaceX's Grasshopper flies 820 feet, tripling its March 7th leap.
Grasshopper is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicle that SpaceX has designed to test the technologies needed to return a rocket back to Earth intact. While most rockets are designed to burn up in the atmosphere during reentry, SpaceX's rockets are being designed to return to the launch pad for a vertical landing.
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- John S Wolter: I still also like the Johnny Cash music
- Arrewarrie: What the hell are you talking about???
- Mackle Palmeroy: Sold!
That's how you rebut!
- gilbert: What is the weight of the grasshopper ?
- 1aMattes: it wont be affordable as long we burn stuff to get up. we would need some cheap antimatter - which is still very expensive - to get up efficiently.
- James Villy: You can hear it squawk as well.
- Starpilot149: wtf is your problem?..
Nothing that you just said is remotely accurate.
- TimGGleason: Me gusta.
- Yan Leduc-Chun: It's not VTVL, it's VTOL Vertical Takeoff and Landing
- Peter Wexler: Again, looks great, but you will NEVER, EVER see me sitting at the top of one of these. Simply put, there is something really, really, really unnerving about this.
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