Denmark is trying into spacenation if anyone is interested h

The engine had an anomaly shut down in flight, and the rocket fell into the sea. The rocket is actually relatively intact, so they're working on recovery.

>>8222191
>Copenhagen suborbitals
>suborbital
>sub
>orbital
>as in not reaching orbit

>This is literally Europe's BEST rocket

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>>8223067
>I live under a rock
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ariane_5

>>8222191
Not going to watch 4 hours - what's the experiment on about? It's obviously not just to fuck around yes?

>>8223099
>only launches from French Guiana
>Guiana
>South America
>America
Nice American rocket.

>>8223121
>not realizing that slightly lower gravity at the equator makes launching rockets more efficient
>not realizing why the US launches rockets from the southern tip of Florida and Russia launches from southern Kazakhstan

>>8223121
>defending this shit

>>8222191
That company intention is to make cheap rockets through open source. They want to ignite a space race with other nations that can't afford US space tier program.

>>8223136
That' wouldn't ignite space race - something only like warp drive could ignite space race - it would come natural to even shithole to start developing space programs.

>>8223136
> that can't afford US space tier program.
Except look @ how much SpaceX has spent so far, and what they've accomplished

It really wouldn't cost much for someone to mimic them

>>8223136
I don't think it's particularly that they want to make rockets cheaper. They're just hobbyists having a good time and trying for maximum nerd cred.

Their main goal is just manned launch to space (not orbit), like SpaceShipOne, and they only got together years after SpaceShipOne's success.

They've got 55 team members, and have been at it for 8 years. If you assume each member contributes an average of around $10,000 worth of volunteer work per year (probably a low estimate), plus the actual money they're spending, it's got to be at least the equivalent of $5 million dollars worth of resources already, and they haven't sent so much as a camera above the cruising altitude of airliners, let alone a human to space.

SpaceShipOne was a $25 million project (over about 3 years). Falcon 1 was about $90 million (over about 4 years). Considering the limited scope of their work and their rate of progress, I don't think they're being any more cost-effective.

>>8223168

>implying excellent engineers are to be found everywhere

>>8223191
You don't think excellent engineers could be found in europe?
Hell, in russia?

>>8223201
He's right. Competent engineers are very difficult to find. Most competent engineers are employed by governments in their defense/space programs. NASA is home to some of the world best engineers and a lot of companies want to hire them but working at NASA is a pretty good job. Russia lost a lot of their engineers to the US private sectors after the fall of the USSR. They still have some top tier talent but no where near where it was during the Soviet days. They're still in the forefront of Aerospace design. Google the S-37. It has a pretty good design and the forward swept wing although not a new design in teh aerospace world it still is revolutionary how they implement the design into a fighter plane.

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>>8223238
>Google the S-37.
Okay...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukhoi_Su-47
>Role: Experimental/Technology demonstrator
>First flight: 25 September 1997
>Status: Cancelled
>Number built: 1

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_X-29
>Role: Experimental Research Aircraft
>First flight: 14 December 1984
>Status: Retired
>Number built: 2