Congratulations to the Copenhagen Suborbitals team on winning the Milestone Trophy in the FAI-Breitling Awards for 2013: FAI Breitling Award Goes to Copenhagen Suborbitals – Wired Science.

The jury gave this statement for the decision:

“Copenhagen Suborbitals have achieved an outstanding performance and contribution to astronautics by designing, building and launching the world’s first amateur built full size rocket with full computer control and steering – based completely upon amateurs and donations.

The results has been achieved from nothing – and this has demanded the highest level of vision, patience, and creativity, organizational and technical skills in different areas from computer programming to economics and funding.

The way of thinking, working and the way of sharing information in aeronautics has never been seen before, and can change the way we interact with others and the way we travel in space.”