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Great clean video link thanks, but I cant work out the scale, first it looks like a toy rocket, then from the distance shot it looks huge, like spaceX huge, and
by whitehexagon 1y ago
Great clean video link thanks, but I cant work out the scale, first it looks like a toy rocket, then from the distance shot it looks huge, like spaceX huge, and then landing it looks quite small again, especially with the lawn sprinklers.
But an impressively smooth landing regardless, and I would imagine maybe harder the smaller the rocket is.
- tw04 1y ago> successfully landed its 6.3-metre (20.6-foot) experimental reusable launch vehicle From another article.
- hbrav 1y agoOr in natural units: three very tall men stood on top of one another, wearing a top hat.
- TeMPOraL 1y agoIt's not a rocket, but three men in a trench coat?
- lowestprimate 1y agoHow many bananas?
- peterlada 1y agoAnd under the French cost is an African swallow.
- ryandrake 1y agoOh jeez, how many football fields is that?
- Someone 1y agoLet’s see. 2 cm of grass on top of, say, 10 cm of earth would make the height of a football field 12cm. That would make it as high as about 50 football fields.
- RattlesnakeJake 1y agoAre all three men wearing individual top hats, or does one cover all of them?
- imzadi 1y agoAbout the height of a giraffe
- voxic11 1y agoIts like half the size of a Trident missile.
- gnatolf 1y agoWhich inexplicably isn't know for soft landings
- hnburnsy 1y ago>6.3 m in length, 85 cm in diameter, 900 kg dry weight/1,312 kg wet weight
- ricardobeat 1y agoThat's just a tad longer than a north-american SUV (Escalade, Navigator) standing on it's back. Accurate to say it's a car-sized rocket.
- xarope 1y agoI'm a bit confused, most cars aren't more than 3m in length. This rocket is 6.3m. Or are there really SUVs which are > 6m in length?
- la_oveja 1y agothe mentioned suvs are 5.7m and 5.6m long, respectively
- xarope 1y agowow, and I thought F350s were big
- cyxxon 1y agoHuh? Even in Europe most cars are longer than 4m (a VW Golf is 4.28m for example).
- numpad0 1y agoCurrent gen Prius is about 4.5m in length, 1.8m in width, 1.5m in height. "Slightly under 5 x 2 x 1.5m" has been the standard size of a sedan for past few decades.
- perihelions 1y agoIt's much smaller than other suborbital hop vehicles. If it's 6.3 meters, the smallest Starhopper was 18 meters; Blue Shepherd 19 m; China's Hyperbola-2Y 17 m; the Zhuque-3 VTVL test vehicle 18.3 m. Also the Grasshopper from 2012 was 32 m and even 1993's DC-X was 12 m.
- SECProto 1y ago> It's much smaller than other suborbital hop vehicles. You likely weren't being exhaustive in your listing, but I first started watching aerospace development with Armadillo Aerospace, and some of their rockets were much smaller. Their largest one was still shorter than the dc-x. http://www.astronautix.com/q/quad.html http://www.astronautix.com/q/quad.html
- throwaway562if1 1y agoElectron is an 18m orbital delivery rocket (14.5m+payload without the optional third stage).
- kryptiskt 1y agoJapan holds the record for the smallest rocket to reach orbit with the SS-520, which put a cubesat into orbit in 2018. Its dimensions according to Wikipedia: Height – 31 feet (9.54 meters) Weight – 2.9 tons (2.6 metric tons) Diameter – 20 inches (52 centimeters) Payload to Low-Earth Orbit – ~9 lbs (4 kg)
- muziq 1y agoI believe they can do 140kg to 800km, but #5 was only 4kg to a 180km x 1800km orbit..
- MrSkelter 1y agoIt’s harder to land shorter vehicles. If you can land a short one the taller ones are easier.
- gpm 1y ago