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SpaceX Successfully Tested Draco Thruster

Posted by samzenpus on from the to-infinity-and-beyond dept.

dj writes "The propulsion division of SpaceX has performed another important test. After the test of the Falcon 9's first stage Merlin engines, the smallest engine of the SpaceX family, Draco, has been put to test. During the test, the thruster fired for ten minutes, paused for ten minutes, and then was restarted for an additional minute. The test was performed on a new vacuum test stand built by SpaceX, and put into operation in March 2008 at the SpaceX Test Facility outside McGregor, Texas."

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  1. You Have To Be Joking... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    These idiots who can't manage to reliably get a vehicle into space/orbit more than, what, 20-25 percent of the time?

    Something that NASA and the Russians were doing back in the late 1950s with massively more primitive technology?

    Hell, these idiots at SpaceX could have just fucking copied the proven and reliable and cheap existing launch tech. No one is going to be dumb enough to trust their payload with these incompetent clowns.