SpaceX’s Grasshopper Breaks Record For Vertical Take-Off And Landing


Another day, another Johnny Cash-accompanied test of Elon Musk’s SpaceX Grasshopper rocket. This is not to say this isn’t exciting, because consistency is the name of the game for a commercial reusable rocket, especially the Grasshopper, which can take off and land vertically.

In this most recent test, the Grasshopper takes off, hovers at about 250m and lands neatly back on its launch pad. For those who haven’t been keeping track, that’s about triple the height of the last test, and six times higher than the test before that! [Elon Musk]


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