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Europe's Biggest Amateur Rocket Completes Test-Firing

Posted by timothy on from the in-space-no-one-can-file-a-noise-complaint dept.

Michael Eriksen writes "The Danish amateur rocket group Copenhagen Suborbitals has successfully test fired their rocket (article in Danish). It is a 90,000 kW monster delivering a total of 140,000 N. According to the group, this is by far the biggest amateur rocket ever fired in Europe. The final goal is a manned (!) low-orbital flight."

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  1. Rocket fuel for thought... by retech · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why is this cute and interesting when done by a group of European amateurs and a global threat when done in North Korea?

    1. Re:Rocket fuel for thought... by mattaw · · Score: 5, Insightful

      Amateur rocket people don't have a stock of chemical, biological and possible a few nuclear weapons, a historical grudge against a southern neighbor and totalitarian government (although their welfare state does have very good coverage).

  2. Ummm by MichaelSmith · · Score: 5, Insightful

    ...because the North Koreans are militaristic nut cases and the Danes are not?

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  3. Re:And so what... by pjabardo · · Score: 5, Insightful

    George W. Bush is a reasonably balanced leader? That's a first! Obama? Let's wait and see...