Gallery: Images of a DIY Manned Space Program

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    Photos by Jev Olsen
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    Every Monday most teams are meeting up for development coordination, in the upper office at HAB1. One of the few places at Copenhagen Suborbitals which are heated up. Since summer 2013 the meetings have been focused on the HEAT2X/TDS80 launch and the coming HEAT2X rocket engine test, March 2014.
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    Photos by Thomas Pedersen
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    Test mating of the tank and engine sections.

    Thomas Madsen and Peter Meinke mating the aft engine-section of the HEAT2X launch vehicle with the propellant section.
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    Photos by Jev Olsen
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    During house warming of the new Copenhagen Suborbitals facility HAB2, the water sound supression system was tested (for the HEAT2X engine test). The entire concrete structure holding the launch vehicle for the full burn test has a mass of app 100 tonnes. The test is planned for March 1, 2014.
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    Photos by Jev Olsen
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    Copenhagen Suborbitals 40 tonnes submarine Nautilus being sand blasted January 2014 for new coating. Every wednesday a dedicated submarine team is working the submarine.
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    Submarine Nautilus finally painted for the first time since 2008 and getting prepared for (sea)launch in 2014.
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    Photos by Jev Olsen
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    Bo Braendstrup (left), in charge of the space rated avionics electronics talking subsystems fitting with Rene Olsen. The TDS80 capsule in the picture will be launched into space summer 2014 for re-entry stability testing.
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    Photos by Thomas Pedersen
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    Test firing the TM65 liquid propellant engine in 2012. This engine, slurping 300 liters of alcohool and 300 liters of LOX in 20 seconds has app 250.000 horsepower and a thrust of 8 tonnes. It is made entirely from plain carbon steal and "home depot" components.
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    Photos by Thomas Pedersen
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    Kristian von Bengtson welding on the TDS80 capsule.

    Kristian von Bengtson welding on the TDS80 capsule main structure. This scaled down capsule is made entirely from aluminum and must have a mass of 83 kg to match the ballistic coefficient of the full scale capsule.
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    Photos by Jev Olsen
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    Per Garbos in the aft water ballast system of submarine Nautilus. Per is lead of the submarine development team.
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    Peter Maersk coding our live HD streaming system. All launches and tests are broadcasted live on youtube in HD using a broadcasting systems developed by Copenhagen Suborbitals.
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    Martin and Allan "working" new aft fin sections for submarine nautilus.
  • Welding the TDS80 capsule.
    Photos by Thomas Pedersen
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    Welding the TDS80 capsule.
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    Photos by Jev Olsen
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    The Copenhagen Suborbitals site placed at the old abandoned shipyard B&W, where the very first diesel engine driven ship "Selandia" was build, almost 100 years ago. One of the last industrial areas of the Copenhagen harbor area.
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