http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_offices/ast/media/20110922%20spacex%20grasshopper%20draft%20ea.final.pdfOriginally the altitude limit discussed was 11,500' and IIRC Musk was talking about exceeding mach 1 with grasshopper at McGregor which would be taking it quite a bit higher than 1000'. I don't know if they've said anything about the timetable for moving the testing but it might be a ways off with a lot still to be done in Texas.
No video yet?
Quote from: mrmandias on 06/17/2013 04:31 pmNo video yet?That's what I'm trying to figure out too. Was there an actual test flight?
The first place to be learn of new GrassHopper videos is usually Elon Musk's twitter account:https://twitter.com/elonmusk
Shotwells speech showed nothing new grasshopper wise. Even though the 6-14 flight had already happened. it did show some of other new stuff. like the F-9R second stage test.
Quote from: CardBoardBoxProcessor on 06/18/2013 11:38 pmShotwells speech showed nothing new grasshopper wise. Even though the 6-14 flight had already happened. it did show some of other new stuff. like the F-9R second stage test. Shotwell's TEDx speech appears to have been on June 4th. (https://twitter.com/TEDxChapmanU) She also mentioned they were five of five on Grasshopper and the 6/14 flight was number six.
Quote from: neoforce on 06/19/2013 12:57 amQuote from: CardBoardBoxProcessor on 06/18/2013 11:38 pmShotwells speech showed nothing new grasshopper wise. Even though the 6-14 flight had already happened. it did show some of other new stuff. like the F-9R second stage test. Shotwell's TEDx speech appears to have been on June 4th. (https://twitter.com/TEDxChapmanU) She also mentioned they were five of five on Grasshopper and the 6/14 flight was number six.The video also contains tests of the upper stage engine. It also contains a video of the first test of the F9 1.1 stage which had engine cutoff a few seconds into the test. We haven't seen these videos before.
Thanks for linking that, I didn't want to watch it all.I notice she says "That's a spectacular video" in reference to a Grasshopper failure.Is that a hint as to the outcome of flight 6?
Quote from: plank on 06/17/2013 05:14 pmQuote from: mrmandias on 06/17/2013 04:31 pmNo video yet?That's what I'm trying to figure out too. Was there an actual test flight?Seems to be within the normal posting for grasshopper flights:flight of 9/21, youtube post on 9/24 flight of 11/1, youtube on 11/5flight 12/17, youtube 12/23flight 3/7, youtube 3/11flight 4/17, youtube 4/22flight 6/14, youtube posting on Note those are the date uploaded to space-x youtube channel. There were some videos shown other times. For example, I remember I was watching elon on a livestream of some conference when he showed the first hoverslam and he said it was brand new. But in general, 4 to five days to put on Youtube seems the norm, and while I'm sure a lot of the test engineers are working nights and weekends, the PR department had a weekend off since Friday's latest grashopper flight.
Quote from: spectre9 on 06/19/2013 09:32 pmThanks for linking that, I didn't want to watch it all.I notice she says "That's a spectacular video" in reference to a Grasshopper failure.Is that a hint as to the outcome of flight 6?The talk was before flight 6. So, while she talked about a potential spectacular video, she was talking about something that could happen, about pushing testing to the limit. She could not have been talking about the outcome of GH flight 6.
The latest “hop” of the Grasshopper took place last week, achieving a huge 325 meter leap into the air, before successfully landing after 68 seconds in the air.
The tests are going beautifully, which fundamentally means we're not pushing the envelope hard enough. We should have some failures with Grasshopper. We need to push harder.