Stoke Space Achieves Successful Reusable Rocket Hop Test

Stoke Space successfully flew its Hopper2 prototype, a reusable upper stage, in a brief test flight in Moses Lake, Washington. The vehicle, powered by liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen, reached an altitude of about nine meters before safely landing. Stoke Space considers this flight a significant milestone in their efforts to develop a fully reusable launch vehicle and has obtained valuable data to evolve the vehicle design. The company plans to work on a reusable first stage informed by the lessons learned from the upper stage, with a goal of developing a full-fledged orbital vehicle by 2025.