This is gorgeous.
It seems more and more true every day: private space exploration companies have all the best toys.
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This is gorgeous.
It seems more and more true every day: private space exploration companies have all the best toys.
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That’s cool, but can it reach orbit?
The Grasshopper is sub-orbital, but it is part of the longer-term design of a reusable rocket system that will be orbital. You can read up on it on Wikipedia but the gist of it is pretty simple: instead of throwing away the first and second stages of an orbital rocket, the stages would be brought back to the landing pad and prepared for reuse in just “single-digit hours”.