More funding will help Copenhagen Suborbitals get closer to launching a person into space
Copenhagen Suborbitals are gathering funds to continue work on their world’s only manned amateur space program to show that it is really possible to run a space program without major government budgets and administration. The team has a simple ambition: to launch one of them into space and have her/him safely back. Copenhagen Suborbitals is […]
COPENHAGEN SUBORBITALS is doing it again: TESTING OF THE BIGGEST AMATEUR ROCKET on MAY 31st!
Copenhagen Suborbital is doing it again! Another test launch of the biggest amateur rocket ever built is scheduled for Saturday, May 31. Come and witness the test of the 16 meter tall and 1,200 kg propellant heavy Heat 2X engine in the new 160 ton VTC-3 test stand. The danish space pioneers want to verify […]
Copenhagen Suborbitals: Amateur Rocket will be tested in March
Copenhagen Suborbitals is a non-profit space organistaion. Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madson have founded Copenhagen suborbitals in May 2008. Since then this project is supported by private donors, sponsors, or part-time specialist. Their mission? To launch a human into space, and to prove that human space flight is possible without heavy government funding. Finally, […]
Copenhagen Suborbitals now have new giant facility for more exciting adventures
Just a few days ago Copenhagen Suborbitals have moved into a new 750 sqm facility which marks a start of a new era, shares Kristian von Bengtson in WIRED. The facility is located across the street from HAB (pictures). Having enough space now, Copenhagen Suborbitals hope to provide their followers with even more exciting adventures […]
Copenhagen Suborbitals – successful test launch
Even if not strictly a startup, this is the entrepreneurial team with the highest (pun intended) ambitions – trying to establish human space travel with private and crowdfunded investments. Copenhagen Suborbitals managed this weekend to make a successful testlaunch of the Sapphire rocket, an active guided rocket. Just as previously the testlaunch was in the […]