Copenhagen Suborbitals has created the worlds tiniest manned suborbital vehicle, the Tycho Brahe. The company has been pushing forward in its bid to human space flight possible without government interference or major support and successfully test fired the largest amateur-built bi-liquid rocket engine in the world yesterday. Read more
In this program, we will show you some of the preparations during March. You will see: -the development of our pressure regulator for pressurizing tanks. -the electronics group at work. -a parachute test from the 100-meter high gantry crane at Odense Steel shipyard. -the latest development of the spaceship Tycho Deep Space, now with buoyacy balloons, -ablative coating casting in the second stage of the two-stage rocket Smaragd. -the moving of our MVAB, so we may continue our work to make the floating launch pad Sputnik ready to sail. -the renovation of the submarine Nautilus
'Heat-1X Tycho Brahe', the home-made, amateur rocket was successfully launched at 4:32 on Friday afternoon from its home-made platform 'Sputnik', which floated in the Baltic Sea off the east coast of the Danish island of Bornholm. The rocket's Danish builders, amateur rocket artists Peter Madsen and Kristian von Bengtson, hoped Heat-1X Tycho Brahe would fly 15 to 16 kilometres into the sky on its virgin flight, but they said they would also be happy if it got any air at all. Read more