|
https://www.copsub.com Copenhagen suborbitals, headed by Peter Madsen who btw intends to ride in the nose of the rocket eventually, is an open-source amateur/volunteer rocket group who are doing some pretty amazing things. Their current rocket, HEAT2X, is 65cm in diameter, 10m tall, weighs 1200kg at liftoff and is designed to fly over 100km high. Today they're doing a static test of the rocket which should be great fun whatever the outcome! Test is in about 1 hour, currently interviews and tech talk on the stream which is also pretty interesting.
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 13:06
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 25, 2024 23:17 |
|
|
The website says there is over 6 hours until the engine ignition.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 13:12
|
|
|
15:00 CEST, central European summer time, it's currently 2:15pm CEST.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 13:15
|
|
|
There is a countdown timer that says 6 hours, 42 minutes. I think it is going by CST time because that would put it at 14:00 CST.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 13:17
|
|
|
Their countdown timer must be screwed up. I loaded the live video and it said under 1 hour. drat you Copenhagen!
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 13:20
|
|
|
Yeah for me the countdown timer says that it's already happened, lol dumb euros
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 13:23
|
|
|
yay! 
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 13:25
|
|
|
When I saw the thread I thought "why wasn't this posted earlier?!?" and then I loaded the live video and thought "this is boring, still another hour?"
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 13:30
|
|
|
Butthead posted:When I saw the thread I thought "why wasn't this posted earlier?!?" and then I loaded the live video and thought "this is boring, still another hour?" You're loving welcome!!
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 13:48
|
|
|
An hour ago it was 1 hour away. Now it is 30 minutes away. Arghhhhh! But it will be sweet for those 90 seconds when it does go off. e: less than 20 minutes!
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 14:50
|
|
|
Hey they've come along way since the rickety original concepts.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 14:58
|
|
|
cooll I hope it explodes violently
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 14:59
|
|
|
I kinda hate that the announcers have fixed their communications so they can resume talking over the people on the radio channel.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:01
|
|
|
Holy gently caress. I'm within a one hour drive from the site, but now probably too late. How the gently caress did I miss that this would happen today. Thanks a bunch for posting the feed though.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:04
|
|
|
Always love watching these low-rent rocket tests because there's a very real chance of brutal carnage, unlike commercial space which is almost predictable and boring these days. I remember watching one of the first SpaceX rockets crash into the ocean from an on-board camera live on my computer, the internet is an amazing thing.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:08
|
|
|
Zzulu posted:cooll I hope it explodes violently
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:13
|
|
|
I love how every rocket blastoff ever without fail has advertised a time of blast off and miss it by at least 1+ hour. Just loving destroy your rocket already.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:14
|
|
|
I loving hope Kim Jung-Un isn't watching this.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:14
|
|
|
Fuuuuck you fags test scrubbed
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:22
|
|
|
haha they broke it.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:22
|
|
|
Cancelled, failure in LO2 system
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:22
|
|
|
Good job Copenhagen.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:22
|
|
|
lol
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:22
|
|
|
Uh safety valve blown, no test today. What a cock tease.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:23
|
|
|
I was this close to cumming ugnnnh
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:24
|
|
|
loving Kerbals can do better than this!
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:24
|
|
|
 need to stop using these sensors
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:24
|
|
|
Be safe, poverty ghost.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:24
|
|
|
did another hair dryer break?
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:25
|
|
|
Blackhawk posted:I was this close to cumming ugnnnh Sounds like a faulty valve.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:25
|
|
|
Well, at least I'm going to see another day. Thanks for not blowing up Copenhagen today, Peter.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:26
|
|
|
Faulty pressure sensor on their LOX tank meant that they didn't know what the pressure was as they were filling it with helium, they filled it too much and the burst-disc burst, pissing their LOX all out and making me stay awake for nothing.
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:26
|
|
|
reminder this runs on a fraction of the budget of star citizen kill all nerds
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:27
|
|
|
Sir Cornelius posted:Well, at least I'm going to see another day. Thanks for not blowing up Copenhagen today, Peter. The devastation will occur when they attempt to
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:27
|
|
|
it feels like I see an amateur launch like this every year but it's always just them shooting rockets into the sky When are they going to start doing cool poo poo like sending me to the moon??
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:29
|
|
|
was this an expensive error
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:29
|
|
|
no go !
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:30
|
|
|
|
| # ? Apr 25, 2024 23:17 |
|
|
lol this shits cancelled these nerds cant even fuckin build a rocketship smdh
|
|
#
?
May 31, 2014 15:58
|
|
