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Non-Profit Space Rocket Launching In a Week

Posted by samzenpus on from the diy-to-the-stars dept.

Plammox writes "A non-profit suborbital space endeavor lead by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen is trying to put a man in space. The first test of the boosters and space craft in combination with the sea launch platform will take place this week. The catch? All of this is a non-profit project based on voluntary labor and sponsors. How will they get the launch platform out in the middle of the Baltic sea to perform the test? With the founder's home-built submarine pushing it, of course."

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  1. Re:Suborbital by mangu · · Score: 5, Insightful

    basically a glorified carnival ride, a couple of magnitudes easier than fully orbital.

    Considering they are launching it from a sea launch platform they built, which will be towed to sea with the submarine they built, I'd say this is several orders of magnitude more awesome than what anybody else ever did.

    Let's see, how many orders of magnitude harder things have you ever done? Links, please.

  2. Re:I love these guys by QuantumG · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Why do so many people have a grasp of rocketry as "stuff other people have already done". When you think about learning guitar do you ever find yourself saying "nah, they already did that in the '50s".

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