A video was released by SpaceX this past week, wherein its Dragon 2 spacecraft was seen performing a five-second hover test successfully at the rocket facility of the company in McGregor, Texas.

With this the company has achieved another milestone as it is working hard towards completing NASA certification of the latest spacecraft, which is going to replace the present version of Dragon.

Since a few years, SpaceX has been sending supplies to the International Space Station with the help of the original Dragon capsule, and the company has won a new contract to extend that business into the 2020s, lately.

However, the space company of Elon Musk has also won a contract from NASA to take astronauts to and from the ISS, which meant creation of a latest version that can support a crew.

The video has been published this week but the test was carried out back in November. The video features a Dragon 2 hanging over one of the launch pads of the company, and when the engines fire, the spacecraft momentarily hovers under its own power. The ultimate motive of the company is to use these engines for landing the spacecraft on solid ground after reentering into the atmosphere of Earth.

The video has showcased a glimpse of how that could look, with eight ‘SuperDraco’ engines firing focusing on the sides of the capsule. As a whole, they generate a sum of 33,000 pounds of thrust. They are the same engines that in the case of emergency can eject the Dragon 2 capsule away from the launchpad during liftoff. (It was tested by SpaceX in May last year.

Initially the company needs to use parachutes for the NASA crew return missions. The US space agency NASA is looking forward to land its own crewed spacecraft, Orion, in the ocean. NASA wants SpaceX take the same step with the crewed Dragon capsule.