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Filip Larsen
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The danish rocket group Copenhagen Suborbitals are scheduled to perform a sea launch of their first guided rocket, the 5.3 m long http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/contentgfx/Sapphire_specs.pdf, on Sunday, June 23th at around 9:00 UTC (11:00 CEST, 05:00 EDT, 02:00 PDT) from the test range ES D 139 in the Baltic Sea. The purpose of the launch is to test and validate the operation of the jet vane thrust vectoring control (TVC) system that has been designed by the group, with the ultimate goal of incorporating the TVC system into the planned HEAT 1600 man-rated launcher (see concept image below).
Launch probability is (at time of writing) estimated to 80%. In case of bad weather, failure to close test range for air and sea traffic, or similar conditions, the launch may at the last minute be postponed one week to June 29-30.
The group will provide a live video feed of the event on the Copenhagen Suborbital YouTube channel [4] which is scheduled to go live around 2 hours before launch (that is, 2 hours before the times mentioned above).
Please visit the Copenhagen Suborbital homepage [1] and http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/rocketshop [3] for more background information on the event and the group, and for up to date information as the launch gets near. I will post relevant updates to the event in this thread.
[1] http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com
[2] http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/contentgfx/Sapphire_specs.pdf
[3] http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/rocketshop
[4] http://www.youtube.com/user/CphSuborbitals
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