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Copenhagen Suborbital
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Joined: Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:15 pm
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Ouch. Pretty good adverse drop test of the capsule though! LOL.
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Joined: Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:44 am
Posts: 707 Location: Haarlem, The Netherlands ![]() |
Hey, I've seen sardines in a can that looked like that and were just fine
![]() _________________ Say, can you feel the thunder in the air? Just like the moment ’fore it hits – then it’s everywhere What is this spell we’re under, do you care? The might to rise above it is now within your sphere Machinae Supremacy – Sid Icarus |
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Joined: Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:52 am
Posts: 1401 Location: Exeter, Devon, England ![]() |
An interesting live test today!
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Joined: Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:15 pm
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So how'd it go?
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Joined: Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:52 am
Posts: 1401 Location: Exeter, Devon, England ![]() |
There was a lot of smoke and fire! I'm not attuned enough to see what was good or bad, hope there is an update soon
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Joined: Mon May 31, 2004 9:47 pm
Posts: 827 Location: Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) - capital of Israel! ![]() |
You know, all these companies making rockets, and actually succeeding, seems like some kind of dream. It is something so new, that every time another rocket successfully launches, it is kind of unbelievable. It's like the beginning of flight, when airplanes were a novelty, and each time one took off, it was like a miracle.
_________________ “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” -Anonymous |
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Joined: Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:30 pm
Posts: 54 Location: Denmark ![]() |
CS have published a test report for download here
http://www.scribd.com/doc/105682393/Spectra-Rapport |
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Joined: Mon Feb 25, 2008 9:51 am
Posts: 455 Location: Vienna, Austria, Europe, Earth ![]() |
They are now seeking funding for the development of their Tycho Deep Space II capsule on indiegogo:
http://www.indiegogo.com/TychoDeepSpace2 _________________ pride comes before a fall |
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Rob Goldsmith wrote: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_yhxLQU9JA&feature=player_embedded I love their videos. Best thing ever. ![]() _________________ "SCREW THE RULES, WE HAVE MONEY!" http://www.freespaceships.com |
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Joined: Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:44 am
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Copenhagen Suborbitals just posted a new video about their new peroxide-powered turbine pump that they're planning to use to drive their new liquid rocket engine. I don't know what it is about this video, but it's somehow just beautiful, and very impressive too. Well worth 20 minutes of your time. Oh and the peroxide? They're making it themselves by distillation, which is very interesting considering that Armadillo declined to do so several years ago and went kerolox instead.
_________________ Say, can you feel the thunder in the air? Just like the moment ’fore it hits – then it’s everywhere What is this spell we’re under, do you care? The might to rise above it is now within your sphere Machinae Supremacy – Sid Icarus |
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Joined: Mon May 31, 2004 9:47 pm
Posts: 827 Location: Yerushalayim (Jerusalem) - capital of Israel! ![]() |
It's a giant sprinkler!
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Joined: Sun Jan 17, 2010 2:21 pm
Posts: 547 Location: B.O.A. UK ![]() |
Lourens wrote: Copenhagen Suborbitals just posted a new video about their new peroxide-powered turbine pump that they're planning to use to drive their new liquid rocket engine. I don't know what it is about this video, but it's somehow just beautiful, and very impressive too. Well worth 20 minutes of your time. Oh and the peroxide? They're making it themselves by distillation, which is very interesting considering that Armadillo declined to do so several years ago and went kerolox instead. I did enjoy that vid and do quite like the idea of going back to H2O2 as i think modern methods of handling it could make it safer to use than cryogenic fuels along with its non toxic environmental benefits. And speaking as a Brit. the only satellite we have put up ourselves so far was using it as a fuel and if you watch the vids we had blue diamond effects using it back in the 60's. _________________ Someone has to tilt at windmills. So that we know what to do when the real giants come!!!! |
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Joined: Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:40 am
Posts: 476 Location: California and Michigan ![]() |
I like the idea of beaming power, and using h20 and thermolysis,to detonate the
fuel spray spurts, then all the infrastructure can be on the ground, and the rocket can weigh almost nothing, think about the telescopes that bend there mirror array to compensate for atmosphere, now apply it to a large laser array, that is all focused on the rocket cone, powering it so space, from the ground, or at least most of the way, ![]() _________________ Let not the bindings of society hold you back from improving it.... the masses follow where the bold explore. |
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Joined: Mon Dec 18, 2006 11:15 pm
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Use a high power phased array in the millimeter-wave band and you don't even need that. Totally solid-state.
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