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Video of Falcon 9 Reusable (F9R) taking its first test flight
- haswell 12y agoFocusing on just the rocket in flight, it's easy to start interpreting it as a much smaller object. Looking at the size of the trucks next to the launch pad in comparison is just mind blowing after seeing the rocket maneuver the way it did.
- gus_massa 12y agoI’m still trying to understand the details. I hope that this data is correct, please confirm o correct them: This video was filmed yesterday (2014/04/17), it’s a launch of the new v1.1 model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_(rocket)#Grasshopper_v1.1_2 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_(rocket)#Grasshoppe... ) This is not a video of the launch of the old v1.0 model (2013/04/17 or 2013/08/13) that also reached 250m. (In another test, the old model reached 744m before landing.) This is (obviously) no a video of today launch to send cargo to the ISS (uses v1.1 model)
- mikeyouse 12y agoCorrect. You can actually see the old grasshopper 1.0 on a different pad in the background near the beginning and end of the linked video. The 1.0 is significantly shorter than the 1.1 (which is built on the Falcon 9).