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Become a Copenhagen Suborbitals Supporter
- soco 5y agoHmm not working from my Firefox (latest on W10): secure connection failed with MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_REQUIRED_TLS_FEATURE_MISSING... Chrome works though.
- kasperni 5y agoCopenhagen Suborbitals' achievements include [1]: - Most powerful amateur rocket ever flown. - First amateur rocket flown with a payload of a full-size crash test dummy. - First Main Engine(s) Cut-Off (MECO) command sent to, received and performed by an amateur rocket. - Handling and orchestration of a sea launch, by a small-budget organization. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Suborbitals https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhagen_Suborbitals
- 4ad 5y agoDon't forget about first co-founder convicted of murder[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Madsen https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Madsen
- Genbox 5y agoSurely it is not the first co-founder convicted of murder.
- flemhans 5y agoHappy other people took over.
- henrikschroder 5y agoHere's my claim to fame: I went on a very short dive with him in Copenhagen harbour in the submarine he built before that one.
- the-dude 5y agoHans Reiser
- syedkarim 5y agoDoes anyone know why they don’t have an interest/long-term goal of building an orbital rocket?
- sjburt 5y agoI think it's just the cost. The Spica is about the smallest rocket that could get a human past the Karman line. It's 12m high and weighs 4000kg. To get into orbit, you'd need something around the size of the Mercury/Atlas rocket, which was 120,000 kg to get a 1500kg capsule to orbit. Of course, they could do an unmanned mission. The smallest orbital rockets are about 10m tall and 2.5T, for a payload in the 5-10kg range. But I think that is not as interesting for them.
- dang 5y agoPast discussions: Copenhagen Suborbitals: The world’s only manned, amateur space program - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18205435 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18205435 - Oct 2018 (70 comments) Copenhagen Suborbitals Successfully Launches Active Guided Rocket - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5944957 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5944957 - June 2013 (41 comments) Copenhagen Suborbitals Release Snowmix, an Open Source Video Mixer - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4605030 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4605030 - Oct 2012 (2 comments) Copenhagen Suborbitals open-source private spacerocket will launch in an hour - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2616050 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2616050 - June 2011 (57 comments) Non-Profit to Launch Human Into Space Using €50,000 Spaceship - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1624552 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1624552 - Aug 2010 (10 comments) Record-Breaking Amateur Rocket Launch - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=583550 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=583550 - April 2009 (16 comments)