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Community => Science and Technology => Topic started by: Jason on June 23, 2020, 12:47:42 PM

Title: Spaceship Neptune - Launching from Cecil Spaceport
Post by: Jason on June 23, 2020, 12:47:42 PM
https://www.space.com/space-perspective-stratosphere-balloon-tourism-flights.html
Title: Re: Spaceship Neptune - Launching from Cecil Spaceport
Post by: marcuscnelson on June 23, 2020, 06:36:31 PM
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Spaceship Neptune will spend about two hours getting up to a maximum altitude of about 100,000 feet (30,000 meters), pulled gently upward by a 650-foot-tall (200 m) balloon filled with buoyant hydrogen.

"Helium has become quite difficult to obtain," Space Perspective founder and co-CEO Taber MacCallum said during a news conference today, explaining the choice of lift gas. "It's used for a lot of medical practices and for launching rockets."

Space Hindenburg?

I mean... it's definitely different. Not what I would have expected at all. But hey, it's space and it's launching from Cecil, so mission accomplished for those guys I guess.
Title: Re: Spaceship Neptune - Launching from Cecil Spaceport
Post by: BridgeTroll on June 24, 2020, 06:37:35 AM
Test flights from Cecil... very cool... 8)
Title: Re: Spaceship Neptune - Launching from Cecil Spaceport
Post by: Jason on June 24, 2020, 11:46:45 AM
It would be awesome to see this thing launch but Space Perspective's website doesn't have any information yet.