{"id":81801,"date":"2012-12-26T20:52:38","date_gmt":"2012-12-26T12:52:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-tests-new-grasshopper-vertical-takeoff-landing-vehicle\/"},"modified":"2012-12-26T20:52:38","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T12:52:38","slug":"spacex-tests-new-grasshopper-vertical-takeoff-landing-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-tests-new-grasshopper-vertical-takeoff-landing-vehicle\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Tests New Grasshopper Vertical Takeoff, Landing Vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<table width=\"150\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" cellpadding=\"6\" cellspacing=\"2\" margin=\"5\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"225\" height=\"126\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Assets\/Image\/Screen%20shot%202012-12-26%20at%2011_53_35%20AM.png\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<i>Click on the image to watch the video of the third Grasshopper flight. The rocket rose 131 feet for 29-seconds.<\/i><br \/>\nImage credit: SpaceX\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>[12-26-12] <b>SpaceX\u2019s<\/b> vertical takeoff and landing vehicle (VTVL), Grasshopper, completed a test flight conducted earlier this month at the company\u2019s rocket development facility in McGregor, Texas, during which the vehicle rose 131 feet (40 meters) from the ground, hovered and landed safely on the pad using closed loop thrust vector and throttle control.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;SpaceX is developing the Grasshopper VTVL as a means of creating a reusable launch vehicle. The total test duration was 29 seconds. The vehicle stands 10 stories tall and consists of a Falcon 9 rocket first stage, Merlin 1D engine, four steel landing legs with hydraulic dampers, and a steel support structure.<br \/>\n&nbsp; &nbsp;\u201cThe 12-story flight marks a significant increase over the height and length of hover of Grasshopper\u2019s previous test flights, which took place earlier this fall. In September, Grasshopper flew to 1.8 meters (6 feet), and in November, it flew to 5.4 meters (17.7 feet\/2 stories) including a brief hover,\u201d SpaceX said in a company statement. \u201cTesting of Grasshopper will continue with successively more sophisticated flights expected over the next several months.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click on the image to watch the video of the third Grasshopper flight. The rocket rose 131 feet for 29-seconds. Image credit: SpaceX [12-26-12] SpaceX\u2019s vertical takeoff and landing vehicle (VTVL), Grasshopper, completed a test flight conducted earlier this month at the company\u2019s rocket development facility in McGregor, Texas, during which the vehicle rose 131 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81801"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}