A very impressive hop. It will probably be some time yet before Grasshopper -- not much more than the engine, struts and fueling system -- gets above 10,000ft or supersonic, but it can launch, hover and land. Not bad.
Search this blog
Subscribe by E-mail
Google Translate
Recent Entries
- WGS-5 launch scrubbed for today
- For clarity's sake Flightglobal's SpaceTrak database renames Eutelsat satellites
- ANALYSIS: NASA Manned lunar return is probably a better choice than asteroid capture say space experts - and they are probably right
- Bion M1 biological test capsule lands but many of the animals did not make it
- Dr Sally Ride is given postumous award of Presidential Medal of Freedom
- So how does a British kid get to space as an astronaut?
- Lockheed Martin gets options converted to orders for GOES T and GOES U
- Boeing is selected to build Viasat-2 broadband comsat
- Was extreme altititude suborbital launch by China an anti-satellite weapon?
- GPS II-F4 is sent into orbit by an Atlas V 401 rocket
Recent Comments
- Neil Shipley commented on NASA buys six more Soyuz "seats" for rides to International Space Station: Ok that's
- David Todd commented on Musk plans a stock offering for SpaceX after successful IPOs in his other firms: I am sorry
- Michael J.W. commented on Musk plans a stock offering for SpaceX after successful IPOs in his other firms: Hi guys, J
- Artghur Diamond commented on Musk plans a stock offering for SpaceX after successful IPOs in his other firms: I have a d
- a different spacedude commented on Atlas V successfully launches SBIRS GEO-2 early warning satellite: Not correc
- David Todd commented on Mars is in danger of being struck by a comet in October 2014: While it i
- hansboy commented on Mars is in danger of being struck by a comet in October 2014: what about
- David Todd commented on Atlas V successfully launches SBIRS GEO-2 early warning satellite: The former
- spacedude commented on Atlas V successfully launches SBIRS GEO-2 early warning satellite: TRW (now N
- David Todd commented on NASA travel cuts: Bolden breaks own rules and goes to banned conference: This colum
Recent Assets
SpaceX's Grasshopper flies ever-higher
By Zach Rosenberg on March 11, 2013 2:30 PM | Permalink | Comments (0)
ADVERTISEMENT
Cookies & Privacy
Like Flightglobal on Facebook
Tag Cloud
- 2008
- 2009
- 2010
- altair
- ares
- astronaut
- atv
- bolden
- budget
- china
- conference
- congress
- constellation
- cots
- esa
- ESA
- eva
- exploration
- falcon
- flight
- hyperbola
- international astronautical congress
- International Space Station
- interview
- iss
- jaxa
- ksc
- lander
- launch
- lunar
- mars
- moon
- nasa
- NASA
- obama
- orion
- rocket
- roscosmos
- russia
- scaled composites
- shuttle
- soyuz
- Soyuz
- space
- space shuttle
- space station
- space tourism
- spaceflight
- spaceport
- spaceshiptwo
- spacex
- ss2
- suborbital
- test
- tourism
- uk
- video
- virgin galactic
- Virgin Galactic
- wk2
Flightglobal Blogroll
Categories
- Add category (1)
- Apollo (37)
- Ares (121)
- COTS (68)
- China (76)
- Commercial human spaceflight (227)
- Constellation (205)
- ESA (176)
- History (133)
- International Space Station (250)
- Iran (7)
- JAXA (50)
- NASA (465)
- Orion (114)
- Personal spaceflight (181)
- Russia (198)
- SLS (9)
- Satellites (232)
- Science (77)
- Soyuz (93)
- Space Shuttle (101)
- Space tourism (193)
- SpaceX (22)
- Spaceport (73)
- Suborbital (132)
- Technology (264)
- Virgin Galactic (139)
- White Knight (74)
- commercial launch services (232)
- exploration (373)
- space station (69)
Leave a comment
Want a user picture? Get a Gravatar!