Scotland’s first commercial rocket test flight
Capitalism in space: A private smallsat rocket company, Skyrora, has successfully completed a suborbital test flight, the first commercial rocket test flight in Scotland.
Skyrora saw its 2.5 metre (9ft) projectile reach altitudes of almost four miles after taking off at the Kildermorie Estate in Ross-shire. Known as Skylark Nano, it accelerated to Mach 1.45 – more than 110mph.
One could also describe Skylark Nano as nothing more than a big model rocket. Nonetheless, the company is using this test flight to improve its chances to win the competition for some of the money the UK government will award to private companies in connection with the establishment of its new spaceport in Sutherland, Scotland.
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Capitalism in space: A private smallsat rocket company, Skyrora, has successfully completed a suborbital test flight, the first commercial rocket test flight in Scotland.
Skyrora saw its 2.5 metre (9ft) projectile reach altitudes of almost four miles after taking off at the Kildermorie Estate in Ross-shire. Known as Skylark Nano, it accelerated to Mach 1.45 – more than 110mph.
One could also describe Skylark Nano as nothing more than a big model rocket. Nonetheless, the company is using this test flight to improve its chances to win the competition for some of the money the UK government will award to private companies in connection with the establishment of its new spaceport in Sutherland, Scotland.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Four miles = about 21,000 feet.
“it accelerated to Mach 1.45 – more than 110mph”. One of the two values is wrong. Must be 1100 mph.
Speaking of model rockets, these people are seriously insane – 73.1 miles 3,780 mph
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=MODEL+ROCKET+NATIONALS&&view=detail&mid=37273B9348D18F7BFC1937273B9348D18F7BFC19&&FORM=VDRVRV
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=MODEL+ROCKET+NATIONALS&&view=detail&mid=B22E9FFBB815C31AB32FB22E9FFBB815C31AB32F&&FORM=VDRVRV
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=MODEL+ROCKET+NATIONALS&&view=detail&mid=6C73ACABF8DCFACB80A66C73ACABF8DCFACB80A6&&FORM=VDRVRV
“Sub-orbital” can still mean a huge altitude. Just up and down without having to achieve the 8 km/s or so orbital speed. Could reach GEO-synchronous satellites, although they would swish by at orbital speed, 450 meter per second. I would even think a suborbital rocket could reach the Moon, again only at a very wrong speed in order to enter her orbit. But a flyby and being reusable could be a pretty good competitor to multi-hundred million dollar NASA missions. And for making dedicated cosmological observations. Could spend hours in microgravity and perfect vacuum for whatever that is good for. I think there’s a potential scientific/industrial use for cheap sub-orbital small rocket flights well beyond tourists in microgravity.