Comments on: First flight of government-built hopper to test vertical landings delayed two years https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/first-flight-of-government-built-hopper-to-test-vertical-landings-delayed-two-years/ Sun, 04 Aug 2024 02:11:35 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/first-flight-of-government-built-hopper-to-test-vertical-landings-delayed-two-years/#comment-1505431 Sun, 04 Aug 2024 02:11:35 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=107170#comment-1505431 They want hydrogen for their RLV.

I like big hydrogen tanks for stage-and-a-half wet workshop—no landing gear, fins…etc.

I’d prefer hypergolics for tail-sitters, but that’s me.

For the Ayn Randians—not everything behind the Iron Curtain was junk

https://hackaday.com/2024/07/29/a-soviet-cassette-recorder-receiving-some-love/

]]> By: pzatchok https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/first-flight-of-government-built-hopper-to-test-vertical-landings-delayed-two-years/#comment-1505391 Sat, 03 Aug 2024 22:39:11 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=107170#comment-1505391 that looks so familiar.

Did they copy that re-usable Chinese rocket?

]]> By: Jeff Wright https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/first-flight-of-government-built-hopper-to-test-vertical-landings-delayed-two-years/#comment-1504574 Fri, 02 Aug 2024 01:02:01 +0000 https://behindtheblack.com/?p=107170#comment-1504574 R-7 proved that government can build things that work–arsenal method it is called.

Europe on the other hand….

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