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F9R First Flight Test | Dark Hacker News
F9R First Flight Test
(youtube.com)
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wxm
12 years ago
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dmayer
12 years ago
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This is a reusable Falcon 9 not the Grasshopper. The Grasshopper program ended last year and used a smaller rocket (AFAIK).
wxm
12 years ago
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Wikipedia lists the F9R also as "Grasshopper v1.1" -- cf.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grasshopper_(rocket)#Grasshoppe...
dmayer
12 years ago
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Ah, did not see that. It's confusing since the Falcon 9 Wikipedia page also has the Falcon 9 Reusable:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_9#Falcon_9-R