The Cutting Edge of Supersonic Ballute Manufacturing
In this video we take you with us to cut some nylon fabric into gores for our updated Ballute design. The Ballute is an inflatable deceleration device which will stabilize and slow down our crewed, Read more…
How To Test Your Homemade Parachute(s) | Part II: The Data
This is a follow up video to our June 29th Spica space capsule ballute and parachute system tests. Here we talk about the data we got from those jumps. If you haven’t seen the first Read more…
Bullseye
Dear rocket friends A few weeks ago we went on a field trip to Odense Skydiving Center for yet another parachute test. This time we tested the first Spica space capsule ballute and a minor Read more…
How To Test Your Homemade Parachute(s) | Part I: The Jump
On June 29th we paid a visit to our good friends in Odense Faldskærms Center – a Danish skydiving club. Our goal was to put one brave skydiver under our homemade Spica space capsule’s Ballute Read more…
First Space-rated Ballute is Ready!
YES! We have sewn the last stitches on our first space rated ballute, and it is now ready for testing! The ballute is the device that will stabilize the space capsule during its descent back Read more…
We All Need Some Space – Mads Stenfatt
We (All) Need Some Space is a video series depicting stories about Copenhagen Suborbitals volunteers’ – their everyday life and passion for Space. This is the first episode telling a story about our parachute lead Read more…
Ballute and parachute tests
On June 2nd we performed two tests: World’s first manned test of a ballute which is basically an inflatable parachute. This was to test the ballute before flying with the Nexø II rocket later this Read more…
