User:Anders Feder/sandbox/Copenhagen Suborbitals

Copenhagen Suborbitals is a Danish non-profit amateur rocketry organization. Founded in 2008 by Kristian von Bengtson and Peter Madsen, the stated goal of the project is to launch human beings into space on privately built rockets and spacecraft. The organization is currently developing a number of vehicles in support of their mission. In June 2011, the team succesfully launched their first test rocket, HEAT 1X Tycho Brahe, to an altitude of 2.8 km from a catamaran launch platform in the Baltic Sea. After two smaller concept test launches in 2012, the team succesfully launched their first actively guided rocket, SAPPHIRE-1, to an altitude of 8.3 km, in June 2013.

The project is open source (space vehicle designs are freely shared), driven by volunteers and funded by private donations and sponsorships.

HATV
The Hybrid Atmospheric Test Vehicle (HATV) is a hybrid rocket engine developed by Copenhagen Suborbitals for testing purposes. The engine has been fired with a variety of combinations of fuel and oxidizer, including epoxy and nitrous oxide, paraffin wax and LOX, polyurethane and LOX, and polyurethane and nitrous oxide. The HATV engine was used in the Sapphire rocket launched in June 2013.