SpaceX Completes Flight Test for Grasshopper Rocket

Space Exploration Technologies Inc. has completed the latest test flight for its Grasshopper autonomous vertical-takeoff and landing rocket. The Grasshopper flew 263 feet, hovered for 34 seconds and landed using a closed-loop guidance system, Wired.com reported Monday.  Jason Par writes that the latest of Space X’s four test flights exceeded the recorded altitudes of previous [...]

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