Cambridge N-Prize Team To Build Balloon-Assisted Rockets

Rob Goldsmith writes "Earlier this week we heard that Cambridge University Spaceflight would be entering the N-Prize competition. The N-Prize is a competition to stimulate innovation directed towards obtaining cheap access to space. Most importantly, the launch budget must be within £999.99. Cambridge University Spaceflight plan to win the prize using a balloon and a rocket. They have now opened up an official forum where the public can track their progress." The linked story has images from a test flight of July 23, and an interview with a member of the team, Ed Moore.

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Good to see someone calling out /. on its sloppy moderation, which has gotten pretty ridiculous recently. I recently had some respectably-modded posts that were retroactively modded down to Troll. So, from what I can tell, some moderator(s) didn't like one of my most recent comments and went back and modded my older comments down. Needless to say, I was a bit stunned.

This is my only post since then, because I'm afraid to post comments lest my karma keep falling. We'll see what happens with this one...