SpaceX’s Next-Generation Reusable Rocket Roars In Tie-Down Test

(Before It's News)

As SpaceX pursues its quest of rocket reusability, it recently subjected the first stage of its next generation Falcon 9 rocket (called the Falcon 9-reusable or F9R) to a tie-down test ahead of some more heavy-duty work in the coming months and years. Early indications are that the test was a success, the firm said.

Details of the rocket are still scance on the SpaceX’s website, but the California-based company said that the rocket would generate about a million pounds of thrust at sea level, and 1.5 million pounds in space. It’s also a sort of follow-on from the leaping reusable Grasshopper rocket that retired last year.

(…)
Read the rest of SpaceX’s Next-Generation Reusable Rocket Roars In Tie-Down Test (166 words)

© Elizabeth Howell for Universe Today, 2014. |
Permalink |
No comment |

Post tags: f94, Falcon 9-R, SpaceX

Feed enhanced by Better Feed from Ozh

• Starquake! How Super-Suns Swing, And What It Could Look Like
• What’s Up for the Month of April 2014
• 3-D Look At Los Angeles Area Quake Provided By NASA Model
• Possible Nova Pops in Cygnus
• Ancient Aliens On Mars Discovery Of Large Driveway
• Martians Had Large Neurons.
• Dinosaurs Worked for Humans Up to 18,000 Years Ago.
• Solar X-Flare Ripples Earth’s Magnetic Field | Video
• NASA Book Reveals New Twist In Flight Research
• NASA’s Commercial Crew Partners Complete Latest Milestones