{"id":350,"date":"2010-08-24T15:49:02","date_gmt":"2010-08-24T14:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paul-ferguson.co.uk\/blog\/?p=350"},"modified":"2014-05-05T21:06:02","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T21:06:02","slug":"copenhagen-suborbitals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/copenhagen-suborbitals\/","title":{"rendered":"Copenhagen Suborbitals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our mission is very simple. We are working towards launching a human being into space. This is a non-profit suborbital space endeavour lead by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen,\u00a0based entirely on sponsors and volunteers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Copenhagen Suborbitals<\/a> could almost be\u00a0considered\u00a0a fairy tale in todays big money and\u00a0safety\u00a0driven times of\u00a0industry, but what two\u00a0Danish pioneers and a team of 19 others (ok, 18 + 1 test dummy)\u00a0are so close to pulling off is just spectacular.<\/p>\n

The team plan to bring cheap micro space craft to the masses and so far look on track to do so, with their first major launch of the\u00a0HEAT-1X<\/a> booster and TYCHO BRAHE-<\/a>1 capsule is\u00a0scheduled<\/a> for the end of August. Funded by donations (aiming for just \u20ac50.000) and have received\u00a0them\u00a0from\u00a0individuals and local industry\u00a0sponsors. They even built their own company\u00a0submarine<\/a>\u00a0which they are using for sea launches.\u00a0Manned\u00a0flights are planned in their\u00a0TYCHO BRAHE-1\u00a0capsule\u00a0which at the size of a wheelie bin might be described as a\u00a0bear-bones, with a\u00a0Pyrex\u00a0bowl lid for a window to the world.<\/p>\n

I can’t think of any other project\u00a0where you really do have to have passion and confidence in your work.<\/p>\n

You can support them by picking up some fine merchandise<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our mission is very simple. We are working towards launching a human being into space. This is a non-profit suborbital space endeavour lead by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen,\u00a0based entirely on sponsors and volunteers.… Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":479,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/copenhagensuborbitals.jpg?fit=563%2C200&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":526,"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/526"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paullferguson.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}