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Copenhagen Suborbitals Upcoming Launch Attempt in June

Posted by brandoniswrite on May 31, 2011

Kristian Von Bengtson checks the cockpit before the launch dummy is loaded. Photo credit: Bo Tornvig, Copenhagen Suborbitals.

Copenhagen Suborbitals hopes to launch the world’s first amateur-built rocket for human space travel and have announced an upcoming launch window for their Tycho Brahe capsule. The window extends from June 1-14, 2011 and they are currently shooting for Thursday, June 2 for an unmanned suborbital test flight, according the their website. The group is headed by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen, and their HEAT 1-X rocket is being prepared for launch from a steel catamaran in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Denmark.

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