{"id":2983,"date":"2013-06-23T15:34:49","date_gmt":"2013-06-23T15:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2983"},"modified":"2013-06-23T15:44:52","modified_gmt":"2013-06-23T15:44:52","slug":"copenhagen-suborbitals-sapphire-flight-a-success-but-recovery-fails","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2983","title":{"rendered":"Copenhagen Suborbitals: Sapphire flight a success but recovery fails"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.copenhagensuborbitals.com\/\" target=\"_d\">Copenhagen Suborbitals<\/a> launched their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.copenhagensuborbitals.com\/sapphire.php\" target=\"_blank\">Sapphire<\/a> rocket today from the sea off Denmark and the active guidance system successfully kept it on a straight vertical trajectory to the expected 8 km altitude. Unfortunately, on the return the parachute system did not work and the vehicle was not recovered. However, the primary goals of the test were achieved: <a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\/translate?sl=da&amp;tl=en&amp;js=n&amp;prev=_t&amp;hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;u=http%3A%2F%2Fing.dk%2Fartikel%2Fkaempe-succes-raket-floej-lodret-til-over-otte-kilometer-159938&amp;act=url\" target=\"_d\">Huge Success: Rocket flew vertically to over eight kilometers &#8211; The Engineer\/ing.dk (Google Tanslate)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Will post a video of the launch when available. See descriptions of the event a t<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CopSub\" target=\"_d\">CopenhagenSub (CopSub) on Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oz1sej\" target=\"_d\">Steen E. J\u00f8rgensen (oz1sej) on Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=%23sapphirerocket&amp;src=hash\" target=\"_d\">Twitter \/ Search &#8211; #sapphirerocket<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: Trent Waddington has posted this screen capture of the on line webcast of the launch:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/lugyS3NZNNo?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copenhagen Suborbitals launched their Sapphire rocket today from the sea off Denmark and the active guidance system successfully kept it on a straight vertical trajectory to the expected 8 km altitude. Unfortunately, on the return the parachute system did not work and the vehicle was not recovered. However, the primary goals of the test were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2983\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Copenhagen Suborbitals: Sapphire flight a success but recovery fails<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diy-space","category-rockets"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-M7","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2015,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=2015","url_meta":{"origin":2983,"position":0},"title":"Copenhagen Suborbitals: The Sapphire guided rocket","author":"TopSpacer","date":"April 29, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Copenhagen Suborbitals posted this video today. 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