Spaceport America - Operation - SpaceX

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In May 2013, SpaceX announced that they had signed a three-year lease for land and facilities at Spaceport America in order to support high-altitude, high-velocity flight testing of the Grasshopper v1.1 reusable launch vehicle (RLV), the second-generation of the SpaceX experimental vertical takeoff, vertical landing suborbital technology-demonstrator. SpaceX is using Grasshopper as one-element of a multi-element program to develop reusable boosters and second stages. Prior to May, SpaceX had indicated that they would do these tests at US Government's adjacent White Sands Missile Range facility.

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