Rocket manufacturer Masten Space Systems unveiled two new reusable rockets today. Xodiac and XaeroB join their siblings Xaero, Xoie and Xombie in the Masten family.
The new unmanned rockets can take off and land vertically, can be reused in a short amount of time, and and hover in mid-air.
The approximately 15-foot rockets are a lot smaller than the reusable rockets that Blue Origin and SpaceX are launching, landing, and (in Blue Origin's case) already reusing. They can't travel as high or carry nearly as heavy of a payload, but they could prove to be useful for gathering science data in suborbital space.