The NASA JSC Project Morpheus project carried out a tethered test flight of their vertical takeoff and landing vehicle on Thursday:
Category Archives: Rockets
The Rocket Company: Chapters 7-10
In the continuing serialization of the updated version of the book The Rocket Company by Patrick J. G. Stiennon and David M. Hoerr, with illustrations by Doug Birkholz. This week you can obtain the following chapters of the book:
- Updated Forward by David Hoerr (pdf)
- Chapter 7 (pdf)
- Chapter 8 (pdf)
- Chapter 9 (pdf)
- Chapter 10 (pdf)
Download these within the next week. Only four chapters will be available at any one time.
See also the electronic version of the updated book is available at The Rocket Company eBook by Patrick Stiennon, David Hoerr, Peter Diamandis, Doug Birkhol: Kindle Store/Amazon.com.
Copenhagen Suborbitals: Moving to a new hangar
Copenhagen Suborbitals is moving into a big new space to work on their big new rocket: Copenhagen Suborbitals: We are going to look like SpaceX – ink.dk (Google Translate)
“The hangar at Refshaleøen has become too small for rocket builders Copenhagen Suborbitals. Now there must be room for really big rockets”
Copenhagen Suborbitals: Video describes new test pad and rocket plans
Copenhagen Suborbitals posts a new video that
describes the building of the new test stand VTC 3 and what it will be used for testing. Peter Madsen describes the idea behind and the progression of the Copenhagen Suborbitals testing facilities. He also describes the next generation of rockets and what is in the pipeline from the rocket engine department.
Video: Morpheus lander v1.5b tethered test
Project Morpheus test fired their new lander vehicle today while it was on a tether:
This is the first tether test of the v1.5b Morpheus vehicle. We had a good ignition and climb. However, as the vehicle attempted to stabilize itself it exceeded the internally set boundary limit causing a soft abort.