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SpaceX Grasshopper completes highest leap to date
- robryan 13y agoI think this is a repost. I love the incremental progress that is being seen on this project.
- grandpoobah 13y agoAw you got me excited. This announcement is from June.
- saym 13y agoI don't have anything substantial to add. But this development still blows my mind
- Lewton 13y agoThis is a month old, why is it being posted now? What's more interesting than this is that they just had a succesfull divert test: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t15vP1PyoA&feature=youtu.be http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2t15vP1PyoA&feature=youtu.be
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- conroy 13y agoI upvoted this thinking it was a new test, but sadly this is an older result from two months ago. To make amends for upvoting without reading the article, here is the history of Grasshopper's public flights Date Altitude Duration Youtube 2012-09-21 1.8 m 3 seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzXlUw2WhcE 2012-11-01 5.4 m 8 seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-VjaBSSnqs 2012-12-17 40 m 29 seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4PEXLODw9c 2013-03-07 80 m 34 seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orUjSkc2pG0 2013-04-17 250 m 61 seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXG_nX7Exg0 2013-06-14 325 m 68 seconds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGimzB5QM1M
- stuartcw 13y agoHas Elon Musk ever said that he intends to land on Mars this way? I know that he has mentioned Grasshoppers launching cargo into orbit and returning.
- H3g3m0n 13y agoI think they land things like Dragon, they have a concept Red Dragon capsule design. But they would probably need to look at having some rockets on Mars, otherwise what happens if someone needs to return to Earth. Also they could reuse the capsules too.