We do not have any specific dates yet - but sometime medio June our potential launch window will open at Baltic Sea test-range ESD139. The first launch planned is a precursor mission with active guided rocket Sapphire. Sapphire has the capabilities to go to approximately 10.000 m (30.000 feet) with a trajectory regulated by jet-vanes.
Almost all teams at Copenhagen Suborbitals are working towards getting ready for this launch medio June working guidance systems, parachutes, payloads, launch towers, launch pads, mission control systems, general planning and exercise. The sapphire rocket development is led by Flemming Rasmussen.
The jet-vane system has been tested long ago and the force-data from these tests are the corner stones of regulating the rocket trajectory. The internal guidance systems and software is done by Flemming Nyboe who explains the basis of such a system in the video seen below.
In the next period I am planning on launching a series of blogs about the Sapphire rocket with overview-diagrams, systems information and launch dates. We are not SpaceX, XCOR or Virgin Galactic – we have no commercial intentions, so there are no secrets here and we aim to show and tell as much as possible to everyone interested - in the name of open source and spaceflight.
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Kristian von Bengtson
