FULL VIDEO: Copenhagen Suborbitals Rocket Launch (SUCCESS) - Baltic Sea - June 3rd, 2011

SUCCESS! (on the 2nd try) - CONGRATS GUYS!

1. Attempt: FAIL @ 1:53
2. Attempt: SUCCESS @ 5:45

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Rocket: HEAT-1X/Tycho Brahe.
This is a non-profit suborbital space endeavor lead by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen, based entirely on sponsors and volunteers.
http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com

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Science & Technology

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• Rocket
• Launch
• Denmark
• Copenhagen
• Suborbitals

[Julenar]

@molemot I dont think a 12 year old could do better. Filming a rocket in supersonic flight, with a handheld consumer camera, in a boat at a distance of 8 km isnt excaltly as easy as you make it sound.

@vzaslavsky The rocket went supersonic after about 10 seconds not 3, please get you fact straight.

Regards

Jev Olsen

Proud member of

Copenhagen suborbitals

[jeremiahblatz]

So many haters. Some things to keep in mind:

1) A 12 year old with a cheap video camera would've produced a blurry mess. Helicopters vibrate. A lot! That camera was gyro-stabilized and fixed to the bottom of the helicopter. If your're going to hate, hate on the execs who decided not to rent a handheld stabilizer. But, really, be happy that they got news coverage at all!

2) None of the parachute companies were willing to help them. They had to come up with everything themselves.

[MrPentatonicScale]

when in doubt stick your head under there and see whats wrong

[rachetomodele]

GREAT rocket, I'm sure it will accomplish it;s purpose in the near future. Keep up the good work guys. Wish I had the resources to build something at least close to that.

[larstheu]

@rdfox76 If you had not seen the hightlight video from CSS (=Copenhangen Suborbitals Support), the video is here: v=K7YZpvs513U

[rdfox76]

@molemot Heh, saw that *after* hitting "Post." Yeah, I just heard about this via the KSP forums, so I'm a bit late to the party. You're right; development of guidance and recovery are the two main obstacles remaining, but those are relatively minor, now that they have a functional, reliable motor that generates enough thrust! (Though they're also developing a new all-liquid one for the future model intended to reach 100km.)

[molemot]

@rdfox76 I'm surprised to see another reply after all these months...thanks for you information; I've posted several more times and been told that the group has better film than the live coverage. Main thing for them now is to develop some guidance system to keep the rocket on course and then they will be much further down the road to launching a man. Guidance and recovery seem to be their necessary priotities..they certainly have a functional rocket motor!!

[rdfox76]

And congratulations, guys! I just heard about you for the first time over on the Kerbal Space Program forums (where someone said that the concept, at least, was pretty similar--a low-budget private space program, though you guys are a LOT saner and more professional than Jeb is in the game! ;) ) and I am thoroughly impressed by what you've gotten done in a short time!

[rdfox76]

@Forgeable Maybe not as the Wright Brothers, but if they could be seen as the Clyde Cessna or Bill Piper of DIY spaceflight, that wouldn't be half bad, either! (I get the feeling that Burt Rutan and Richard Branson will end up being the Bill Boeing/Don Douglas and Juan Trippe, respectively, of commercial spaceflight.)

[rdfox76]

@molemot The team did a much better job of filming the flight themselves, with handhelds on the recovery boats, fixed engineering cameras on the launch platform, and a fixed "pilot's POV" camera in the vehicle itself. This was the equivalent of CNN filming with their own camera from their own helicopter, so their losing the vehicle wasn't a problem, engineering-wise.

[rajeshkumar1]

hmmm did he say supersonic?? somebody explain about this missile?

[BannanaOfDoom]

@LochlanachViking FUCK YES! Du har så meget ret, ned med pikkemænd og patter, op med nørderne!