For several years, our focus at Copenhagen Suborbitals has been on building Spica’s powerful engines — the force that will one day lift a human beyond Earth’s atmosphere. While the engines took shape, the space capsule has been waiting patiently, along with our ever-loyal crash test dummy, Randy.
Now, the engine development has reached a point where we can finally turn our attention — and our hands — back to the Spica space capsule.
This marks a new and exciting phase in our journey. The capsule is not just a shell of metal and bolts; it is where the human meets the rocket — the seat, the protection, and the promise of the first crewed flight of Copenhagen Suborbitals.
The first milestones as we restart capsule work will be:
Installing the seat and a new shock-dampening system.
Reshaping the capsule bottom into a truer, more flight-correct form.
Dropping the capsule — with Randy on board — into Copenhagen Harbour to test splashdown angles and measure g-forces.
Each of these steps brings us closer to that extraordinary day when a person, built up by volunteers and dreams, will ride into space aboard a rocket of our own making.
Engines may lift us, but the capsule carries the dream.
