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September 26, 2011 01:05 pm
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SpaceX's Grasshopper to Fly in the Skies of Texas
MarkWhittington writes "SpaceX, the commercial space company that is a participant in President Barack Obama's commercial crew program, has acquired an experimental permit to test fly a vertical take off and landing rocket called the Grasshopper at its McGregor, Texas, test site. From the article: 'The Grasshopper will consist of a Falcon 9 stage 1 fuel tank, a single Merlin-1D engine, four steel landing legs, and a steel support structure. The spacecraft will burn a refined kerosene fuel with liquid oxygen for 122,000 pounds of thrust. The spacecraft's height will be 106 feet, with the fuel tank being 85 feet in height.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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