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SpaceX's Grasshopper leaps to 820 feet


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Space Coast Daily

 

 

4/25/13

 

SpaceX’s Grasshopper flew 820 feet in a test flight on Monday tripling its altitude of a March leap.

 

The Grasshopper is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) rocket that SpaceX engineers have designed to test the systems required to return a rocket back to Earth intact for further use

 

While most rockets are designed to burn up in the atmosphere during re-entry, SpaceX’s rockets of the future are now designed to return to the launch pad for a vertical landing.

 

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Very cool.

 

The idea is to get a true reusable rocket. This is their 5th test. It's still going to be a while. The whole private sector space business has really taken off (as it were) in the last (?)ten years. Really exciting!

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