Grasshopper 744m Test | Single Camera (Hexacopter)
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On Monday, October 7th, Grasshopper completed its highest leap to date, rising to 744m altitude. The view above is taken from a single camera hexacopter, getting closer to the stage than in any previous flight. Grasshopper is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicle designed to test the technologies needed to return a rocket back to Earth intact. While most rockets are designed to burn up on atmosphere reentry, SpaceX rockets are being designed not only to withstand reentry, but also to return to the launch pad for a vertical landing. The Grasshopper VTVL vehicle represents a critical step towards this goal. Grasshopper consists of a Falcon 9 rocket first stage tank, Merlin 1D engine, four steel and aluminum landing legs with hydraulic dampers, and a steel support structure.
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What is that 'normal' fire next to the thrust flame? Is it designed that way or some fuel leak or something?
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how much money was spent on the equivalent of fuel used?
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What is the purpose of the grasshopper
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I can't wait to ride the space dildo
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This is a goddamn rocket hovering in the air. Man that looks cool. SpaceX please take all my money.
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How fake is this? People will fall for anything these days.
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Looks real to me....ROFLMAO
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Holy shit, what a shot!
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What a beautiful achievement
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Space X , we love you
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oooooWOW!
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This is still just as amazing as the first time I saw it.
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Meanwhile in 2016 North Korea they cant get them off the ground without it exploding
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People are so stupid to believe this is real but then again most are probably kids that don't know about reality. They have been brought up in a CGI world and will believe anything they are fed by the media. It's funny I remember having an argument with some kids that would have fought to the death saying the WWF was real. Only years later once their brains developed they understood their stupidity.
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Things like this give me some hope for humanity.
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It isn't fake it's just you are all too stupid to know
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Ok. I am done. I see a bunch of uneducated liberals, who love to build a conspiracy. Don't you have anything productive you can do?
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wow that is the fakest thing I have ever seen! Kudos to spaceEX!
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why dont you hear the blades of the hexacopter spinning?
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less then 3 years later they made this a functioning launch platform able to land on the land and on the sea
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