A Danish non-profit organization launched its homemade space capsule Sunday (Aug. 12) in a key test of the craft's safety systems. Copenhagen Suborbitals' "Beautiful Betty" capsule — with a crash-test ...

A Danish group of amateur spaceflight enthusiasts launched a homemade rocket Friday (July 27) on a trial flight to test vital technologies for a private manned spacecraft. The team Copenhagen ...

The plan sounds simple: at four o’clock on a mid-May morning, a small flotilla of ships will set sail from the Danish island of Bornholm for international waters in the Baltic Sea, from where – later ...

Second time's the charm Copenhagen Suborbitals wanted to test-fly the HEAT-1X and Tycho Brahe back in September 2010. They were all ready to go, even towing the launch platform out to its blastoff ...

[Photo: Copenhagen Suborbitals] The open-source HEAT-1X Tycho Brahe rocket, built by the non-profit Copenhagen Suborbitals, has semi-successfully launched. Why “semi-successfully”? It got off the ...

Launch of HEAT X-1 rocket carrying Tycho Brahe spacecraft module, by Copenhagen Suborbitals on June 3, 2011, 16:32 hours UTC/GMT +1 hour The helicopters tracking camera can’t follow HEAT X-1 ...

Dunno why Ars hasn't mentioned it. Because of "rocket" Madsen? But it was a success, the next rocket will be designed to send a man into space. Denmark still ahead of India to be the 4th nation to ...