ESA's reusable Space Rider capsule would carry equipment to orbit and back

Space flight requires quite a lot of single-use machinery, and when you're talking about multi-million dollar rockets that are used once, that gets pretty expensive and wasteful. Companies like SpaceX have made in-roads towards reusable rockets, and now ESA has outlined its own reusable Space Rider capsule, which would carry scientific equipment to the edge of space and back several times over.

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Category: Space

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• ESA
• Orbit
• Reuse
• Rocket
• Satellite

from New Atlas (Gizmag) http://bit.ly/2Wr1LMM