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September 26, 2011 01:05 pm

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.'"

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