SpaceX CEO Elon Musk mocked Russia’s new experimental launch car known as the Grasshopper, saying it “seems acquainted” to the corporate’s Falcon 9 rocket.
What Occurred: “Look acquainted,” Musk stated in a submit on social media platform X in regards to the car resembling SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch car.
“It is manner too small although. Must be at the very least twice the scale,” Musk wrote in regards to the Grasshopper in one other submit. Falcon 9 is sort of 230 ft tall.
The Grasshopper is a prototype of Russia’s Amur rocket slated for its first launch no sooner than 2030, in keeping with a report from Ars Technica. The preparation of the Grasshoper will begin subsequent 12 months, the report stated, citing Russian state-owned information company TASS.
Plans for the Amur rocket had been unveiled in 2020. It’s supposed to have a reusable first stage and methane-fueled engines enabling it to land again on Earth post-launch like SpaceX’s Falcon 9.
Why It Issues: Falcon 9 is presently SpaceX’s workhorse. The corporate accomplished its four-hundredth profitable Falcon launch with its Falcon 9 rocket launching a Dragon spacecraft to the Worldwide House Station with provides final week.
“Unusual that nobody has copied SpaceX in any case this time,” Musk then stated in an X submit in regards to the firm’s efforts in the direction of reusing the Falcon car’s boosters in a bid to deliver down the price of spaceflight.
House VP of Launch Kiko Dontchev then additionally stated that the corporate won’t make its objective of 144 launches this 12 months however continues to be concentrating on 30 extra launches for the remaining 12 months.
For the whole lot of 2023, SpaceX solely accomplished 96 launches, not together with two take a look at flights of the corporate’s Starship launch car which is within the testing and improvement part.
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