What I really love about this DIY manned space program is the amount of different tasks to be undertaken everyday – and the many people dedicated for this mission.

There are so much to fix, calculate, sketch, build and test and even though we are all working many parallel development phases and assignments there is one high priority milestone:__ The launch of HEAT2X/TDS-80 summer 2014.__

This mission is the culmination of previously checked out systems - on steroids – designed to give us more understanding and experience with long duration burns, high altitude trajectory, guidance and capsule atmospheric re-entry.

The HEAT2X launch vehicle is app 640 mm in diameter fitted the same size diameter TDS-80 capsule. The success of active guided rocket Sapphire is the foundation of this attempt. Active guidance is the bacon of spaceflight – the one ingredient that makes it all work. We got the space bacon!

To understand more of systems requirements, trajectory and re-entry, Thomas Pedersen has created some preliminary trajectory documents for HEAT2X and capsule TDS-80. These documents will be revised as we learn more, find errors and after testing the TM45 engine - the work horse for launch vehicle HEAT2X.

Please download and have a peek…

HEAT2X preliminary trajectory analysis, Nov 2013

TDS-80 preliminary trajectory analysis, Nov 2013

BTW.. there is always an ongoing debate internally at Copenhagen Suborbitals about having a flag on the rocket. Some think it is way too nationalistic, some believe that it is a part of spaceflight and our nation should be represented and some claims that it does not suit our project which is financially supported by people all around the world.

Personally I have a hard time displaying the flag mostly because it gives me political nausea since Danish right-wing parties have been using this oldest-flag-in-the-world for their foul work. But, maybe it’s time to claim it back?

What do you think?

Ad Astra

Kristian von Bengtson

Rocket Image Credit: Thomas Pedersen / CS