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Not yet scheduled. They now have a test rig ("Grasshopper") with one engine, first-stage tanks, and extremely heavy, fixed legs, which they'll presumably be us
by rst 14y ago
Not yet scheduled. They now have a test rig ("Grasshopper") with one engine, first-stage tanks, and extremely heavy, fixed legs, which they'll presumably be using to check out flight control algorithms for return and landing; it just took its first, very brief hop off the ground. It's not likely that they'd schedule any launches with a reusable first stage until they had a pretty extensive series of suborbital tests with rigs like this.