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Copenhagen Suborbitals open-source private spacerocket will launch in an hour

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Re: Copenhagen Suborbitals open-source private spacerocket will launch in an hour

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Please donate, or become a member of the support organization (it,s 20 dollars a month) if you think this is a cool project.

this is a private noncommercial opensource project, and the whole thing is built on donations and people working in their freetime.

Re: Copenhagen Suborbitals open-source private spacerocket will launch in an hour

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Please donate, or become a member of the support organization (it,s 20 dollars a month) if you think this is a cool project. this is a private noncommercial opensource project, and the whole thing is built on donations and people working in their freetime.

Yep, all started by cool guys from Something Awful: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=327...

Re: Copenhagen Suborbitals open-source private spacerocket will launch in an hour

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What's with the floating platform? The footage looks like it's from a Bond movie.

You mean the floating platform attached to a submarine ? http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/ I hope someone has told the Russians: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident

Their submarine is homebuilt, so I doubt it will match any Russian Specs...

Re: Copenhagen Suborbitals open-source private spacerocket will launch in an hour

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean the floating platform attached to a submarine ? http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/ I hope someone has told the Russians: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident

Their submarine is homebuilt, so I doubt it will match any Russian Specs...

Theoretically it should be able to dive to 400 meters though. Pretty impressive for a few guys welding it together themsellves.

Re: Copenhagen Suborbitals open-source private spacerocket will launch in an hour

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A different stream at http://sputnik.tv2.dk/live/?top#event-820

The one in the submitted link is the control room, this one is currently footage from the platform. Launch time keeps getting pushed back-- If you're not watching, you haven't missed it yet.

EDIT 10:28 Eastern They're resuming the countdown in 6 minutes and they are go for launch.

Re: Copenhagen Suborbitals open-source private spacerocket will launch in an hour

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This is one of the problems with a sealaunch. Its really hard to get internet connection, much less a broadband connection when youre 30 kilometers from the nearest land.

I understand that's a problem but there's clearly a high-quality stream being broadcast to the people in the room - that we have to watch via a low-quality camera. Can we not just view it directly anywhere?

I mean, if these guys can build a submarine and (hopefully) launch a rocket, I'm pretty sure they can manage a link to a good quality broadcast ;)

Re: Copenhagen Suborbitals open-source private spacerocket will launch in an hour

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

You mean the floating platform attached to a submarine ? http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/ I hope someone has told the Russians: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident

Last year they ran into some problems when they called the danish navy and asked 'is it ok with you guys if we tow our 115000 horsepower rocket through danish territorial waters using the largest homebuilt submarine ever built?' unsurprisingly, the initial answer was that it was not ok. They got it solved though.

There seems to have been some negotiation this year also, due to a conflict with a NATO training exercise. In the end they ended up getting permission for a five-day window, according to this Danish article (Google Translate link): http://translate.google.com/translate?js=n&prev=_t&h...
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