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International Space Flight (ESA, Russia, China and others) => Suborbital Missions => Topic started by: Apollo-phill on 12/03/2011 01:55 pm

Title: African Sub orbital Attempt!
Post by: Apollo-phill on 12/03/2011 01:55 pm

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/3976742/Meet-the-afronauts.html

Good smiley story  ;D

Hope those guys make it off the ground one day and I hope they can find an engine donator!

Deserve support in some form ;D


A-P

Title: Re: African Sub orbital Attempt!
Post by: Ben the Space Brit on 12/03/2011 02:16 pm

That machine might manage low-speed/high altitude but that is all.  A real sub-orbital aircraft would need swept or delta wings to deal with the high-speed airflow

Title: Re: African Sub orbital Attempt!
Post by: Nahavandi on 01/16/2012 06:28 pm

I found this video a while ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR97o_FuX-c

The German OTRAG project also comes to mind , they had a rocket range in Congo:

http://www.b14643.de/Spacerockets_1/West_Europe/OTRAG/Description/Frame.htm

Title: Re: African Sub orbital Attempt!
Post by: jcm on 01/16/2012 07:24 pm

Quote from: Nahavandi on 01/16/2012 06:28 pm

I found this video a while ago:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NR97o_FuX-c

The German OTRAG project also comes to mind , they had a rocket range in Congo:

http://www.b14643.de/Spacerockets_1/West_Europe/OTRAG/Description/Frame.htm

Nice! Planned apogee of 36 km, so would not have been a space rocket even if successful. (for those who don't have time to watch the video, actual apogee = 0 km...  I wish the Congolese researchers the persistence that will lead to eventual success.)

Title: Re: African Sub orbital Attempt!
Post by: Nahavandi on 02/06/2012 08:30 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troposphere_(rocket_family)#Troposphere_4

Troposphere IV:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtZozDcj9qM

Title: Re: African Sub orbital Attempt!
Post by: Nahavandi on 02/06/2012 09:26 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OTRAG
http://www.astronautix.com/lvs/otrag.htm

Failed orbital launch :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5pJpd9Vi_U