page_title: Copenhagen Suborbitals
section_title: 2011: First flight of HEAT-1X Tycho Brahe
hierarchical_section_title: Copenhagen Suborbitals / Missions / 2011: First flight of HEAT-1X Tycho Brahe
caption_attribution_description: English: Copenhagen Suborbitals HEAT1/Tycho Brahe leaving Sputnik launch pad at sea off Bornholm
context_page_description: Copenhagen Suborbitals is an amateur crowd-funded, non-open source human space programme. Since its beginning in 2008, Copenhagen Suborbitals has flown five home-built rockets and two mock-up space capsules. Their stated goal is to have one of the members fly into space, on a sub-orbital spaceflight, in a space capsule on the Spica rocket. The organisation was founded by Kristian von Bengtson and by Peter Madsen, who was convicted of the murder of Kim Wall in 2017. Peter Madsen was excluded from Copenhagen Suborbitals in 2014. The organization successfully launched its Nexø II rocket in summer 2018.
  As an amateur organisation, the 55 members use their spare time on the project, while at the same time having regular day-jobs. At the annual general assembly, they elect a chairman and boardmembers. Currently, the chairman is Carsten Olsen.
context_section_description: Having done updates on the rocket, and the valve, and with MLP-Sputnik under her own power, and a support vessel, the group sailed again for Spaceport Nexø on May 28 at 4:50 a.m. They again met up with MHV Hjortø, a Naval Home Guard vessel that serves as mission control and recovery vessel.
  The second launch attempt was more successful and the maiden flight took place 3 June 2011, at 16:32 local time (CEST) (14:32 GMT). The HEAT-1X rocket lifted off and ascended to an altitude of only 2.8 km, because Mission Control had to shut the engine off after 21 seconds.
caption: HEAT 1X Tycho Brahe lifting off from MLP-Sputnik
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