These photos of Stoke Space's 'Hopper' reusuable rocket test are just amazing

[Admin]

New photos from Stoke Space show the successful test flight, Hopper2, bringing the company one step closer toward developing fully reusable rockets.

These photos of Stoke Space's 'Hopper' reusuable rocket test are just amazing : Read more

 

[fj.torres]

Anybody remember the MDD DC-X prototypes from 30 years ago?
Look it up. Now *that* was ambitious: they were aiming for SSTO.

(A while back somebody asked Musk if a Starship variant could make orbit without the booster and his answer was yes, but with almost no payload. Almost is not zero so small satellite launchers need to keep an eye on Starship.)

 

[PHS]

It looks like a scene directly out of a 1950's era movie.

 

[Classical Motion]

That's what I was thinking....50s sci-fi. A little jerky and out of kilter.

 

[Classical Motion]

The most impressive man made motion I've seen, was those satellite hunter killers.

Duty cycle drive.

 

[Mikey]

54 years ago it was impressive when a spaceship landed people on the Moon. Nowadays it's amazing when an unmanned spaceship reaches an altitude of 9 metres!

That's some incredible progress.