Since yesterday a boat is towing a pram from Copenhagen to a Test Area in the Baltic Sea. On board is a home-made Space Rocket for the first low-cost rocket ever built, and they have succesfully obtained a launching permit.
To keep the costs down, they had to figure out some creative solutions, and for instance is the Heat shield made of cork floor tiles, and they use cheap Hair dryers to keep valves free of Ice.
They have built it on a Budget of DKK 300.000 = CHF 53.000
They estimate themself, there is 33% chance of success, 33% of failure, and 33% chance, they will have to aboard the launch.
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‘I had a bottle of whisky that I’d bought to take with me when I go to visit friends in Canada, but I thought, “I’m not opening that for him!”
- Gillian Duffy when Gordon Brown visited her
Full respect for this effort. But: Looking at the engine test, I would not volunteer to be the man they want to send into orbit... I personally find bungee-jumping at the edge of stupid, so sitting on a 210.000 hp rocket engine screwed together by some engineering students on a very tight budget does not really sound too promising...
Remember the quote from pioneer astronaut John Glenn talking to Alan Shepard?
"I wasn’t scared, but I was up there looking around, and suddenly I realized I was sitting on top of a rocket built with parts all supplied by the lowest bidder on a government contract"
EDIT: Also there is a stream here
mms://wms.jay.net/borsenlive
I've opened it in VLC, doesn't seem to be region specific.
Thanks, works great in VLC. Is that Danish being spoken..? If I listen really hard I can actually understand a fair amount of what's being said, in a way it's very similar to German.
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