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What this means is that the major obstacles for going into space have been cleared (reliable engine, logistics around sea launch, active guidance) so the next l
by mixmax 13y ago
What this means is that the major obstacles for going into space have been cleared (reliable engine, logistics around sea launch, active guidance) so the next launch will be Heat2x, which has the potential to reach an altitude of 130 km. Space starts at 100 km.
Disclaimer: I'm involved with Copenhagen Suborbitals, and managed the livestreaming of the event.
- vanderZwan 13y agoDid you see the joke comparing your achievement to the resekort situation[1]? [1] https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151666565407048&set=a.159725812047.118433.826732047&type=1&theater https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151666565407048&se...
- Svip 13y agoI think they did.[0] [0] http://ing.dk/blog/hvorfor-man-ikke-kan-sammenligne-suborbitals-og-rejsekortet-160023 http://ing.dk/blog/hvorfor-man-ikke-kan-sammenligne-suborbit...
- mixmax 13y agoyes - it was hilarious! Rejsekortet is such an embarrasment to Denmark, my only constellation is that I once had sex with the CEO's daughter.
- vanderZwan 13y agoThat escalated quickly.
- kmfrk 13y agoI think you mean "consolation", but I understand the reasons for the typo.
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- angersock 13y agoYou cheeky bastard--to boldly go and all that, I assume?
- furyg3 13y agoOh no. You guys are implementing the same system that was launched in Holland (from the looks of the scanner). It does not get better...
- runarb 13y agoThus electronic ticket systems :) The local government her in Oslo, Norway are working on something similar[0]. It should have been finished in 2005. Now after massive cost overruns they have scoped it down and will soon demolish part of the system (the ticket barriers at the railway station), but still keeping some of it. And of course they have now also started to talk about a new system, this time requiring everyone to have a smartphone with them ( what will happen if your battery runs flat?). 0: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reisekort http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reisekort
- danmaz74 13y agoI'm very curious: How much did this all cost (I mean, without considering the time donated by volunteers)?
- mixmax 13y agoTheir primary income is from the support organisation. It costs 100 Danish kroner a month (roughly $20) and there are around 700 members. So they live on roughly $14.000 a month, or $170.000 a year. Needless to say there is a lot of ingenuity in costcutting, a lot of parts from home-depot....
- danmaz74 13y agoWow, this is even more impressive than the results imho. Kudos to you!
- sorenbs 13y agoEven though the small budget is very impressive, we wouldn't mind to have more members in the support group. Ahem... :-) http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/ http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/
- tomjen3 13y agoI don't know how reliable the estimate is but I have heard 10 million for the entire venture. That is 10 million kroner, roughly 2 mill USD. I doubt NASA could do one launch for that amount of money.
- outworlder 13y ago> What this means is that the major obstacles for going into space have been cleared (reliable engine, logistics around sea launch, active guidance) so the next launch will be Heat2x, which has the potential to reach an altitude of 130 km. Space starts at 100 km. This seems to imply a ballistic trajectory. Still an impressive feat, but getting to orbital velocity seems to be as hard (if not harder), than getting to 100km.
- arethuza 13y ago"This seems to imply a ballistic trajectory" To be fair, they are called Copenhagen Suborbitals. IMHO Whatever they do seems unfeasibly cool to me...
- outworlder 13y agoGood point. And it IS indeed one of the coolest things a human being can do - I'm quite envious. I just wanted to make a point, so people don't start thinking that the next step is to strap a microsatellite on that thing :)
- angersock 13y agoWhat are the chances that CS would be open to publicly offering their schematics and blueprints for the open-source community?
- tomjen3 13y agoWouldn't you still need to be able to retrieve the rocket? I mean it isn't a big issue that Sapphire rest on the bottom of the Baltic, but if Peter Madsen ends up there.