The Grasshopper rocket successfully flew 250 m with a shift of 100 m
Elon Musk and his company SpaceX continue successful experiments with the Grasshopper rocket. The rocket height of a 10-storey building previously made six successful flights, and during the seventh experiment on August 13, 2013, for the first time, carried out a maneuver shifted to the side by 100 m at an altitude of 250 m, then sank back into the center of the take-off area.
Grasshopper is an experimental project for testing SpaceX rocket engines, which in the future will be used in various vertical take-off and landing vehicles, including reusable Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets. The project began to develop in 2011, and the first flight tests conducted in 2012. Since then, the altitude and speed of flight is gradually increasing. Until the end of 2013, SpaceX expects to conduct tests at supersonic speeds.
After three years of testing, the Elon Musk Company plans to launch commercial flights. The Federal Aviation Administration of the United States has already authorized SpaceX for 70 suborbital flights per year. In the future, Musk hopes to win a NASA contract for the delivery of cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station.
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In addition to SpaceX, the development of spacecraft are other private companies. For example, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin (founder of Amazon) is developing the reusable Dream Chaser spacecraft. His model has already been blown through in an aerotube, and the prototype has passed tests for acceleration and deceleration at speeds up to 100 km / h .
Dream chaser
In the end, the testing of the SpaceShipTwo ship continues. Virgin Galactic has already begun accepting pre-orders for suborbital flights from future tourists. To date, 625 people have expressed a desire to pay $ 250 thousand for the opportunity to look at the black sky and experience weightlessness for a few minutes. SpaceShipTwo commercial flights are scheduled for 2014.
SpaceShipTwo
Grasshopper is an experimental project for testing SpaceX rocket engines, which in the future will be used in various vertical take-off and landing vehicles, including reusable Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets. The project began to develop in 2011, and the first flight tests conducted in 2012. Since then, the altitude and speed of flight is gradually increasing. Until the end of 2013, SpaceX expects to conduct tests at supersonic speeds.
After three years of testing, the Elon Musk Company plans to launch commercial flights. The Federal Aviation Administration of the United States has already authorized SpaceX for 70 suborbital flights per year. In the future, Musk hopes to win a NASA contract for the delivery of cargo and astronauts to the International Space Station.
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In addition to SpaceX, the development of spacecraft are other private companies. For example, Jeff Bezos’s Blue Origin (founder of Amazon) is developing the reusable Dream Chaser spacecraft. His model has already been blown through in an aerotube, and the prototype has passed tests for acceleration and deceleration at speeds up to 100 km / h .
Dream chaser
In the end, the testing of the SpaceShipTwo ship continues. Virgin Galactic has already begun accepting pre-orders for suborbital flights from future tourists. To date, 625 people have expressed a desire to pay $ 250 thousand for the opportunity to look at the black sky and experience weightlessness for a few minutes. SpaceShipTwo commercial flights are scheduled for 2014.
SpaceShipTwo
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/190218/
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