Grasshopper 250m Test | (Natural Sound)

SpaceX has released a new clip (with natural ambient sound) of it's Grasshopper hovering at 820 feet, tripling its March 7th leap. Grasshopper is a 10-story Vertical Takeoff Vertical Landing (VTVL) vehicle that SpaceX has designed to test the technologies needed to return a rocket back to Earth intact. Grasshopper consists of a Falcon 9 first stage and is 33.5 meters tall (110 feet). While most rockets are designed to burn up in the atmosphere during reentry, SpaceX's rockets are being designed to return to the launch pad for a vertical landing.