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Why aren't we all doing this! Isn't this the dream of everyone who ever built a model rocket?
One of the founders of Copenhagen Suborbitals are the now infamous Peter Madsen https://www.theguardian.com/global/2018/jan/07/copenhagen-ki...
I was a supporter at the time, but soon left, very much on account of Madsen. I must admit that his later exploits in retrospect quite irrationally have tainted the entire project for me, and I'm not going back.
Why aren't we all doing this! Isn't this the dream of everyone who ever built a model rocket?
Feasibility is the major contributing factor. Time, Space and Money are hard to come by. Then of course there is the red tape from the respective government involving permission for a very costly hobby. Then, the easiest to acquire, knowledge.
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Feasibility is the major contributing factor. Time, Space and Money are hard to come by. Then of course there is the red tape from the respective government involving permission for a very costly hobby. Then, the easiest to acquire, knowledge.
These people launch from international waters. They are a pirate space organisation!
Why aren't we all doing this! Isn't this the dream of everyone who ever built a model rocket?
Does anyone know if there a way to get more involved in the project (eg as a volunteer of any kind)? I couldn't find anything on the website.
I was tangentially involved in the Nexo II launch. Alexandru Csete (author of Gqrx) used my GNU Radio DVB-S2 transmitter code to send live HD video from the rocket. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwSYv8eVQqQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYF8Am-lt20 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqwJu6cSBW4
I have some doubts though regarding the safety of manned launches here. Seems like a serious issue to me and I hope it's not treated lightly.
What actually makes them amateur at this point? Wouldn’t it behiove them to incorporate as a non profit perhaps?