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Spaceship Neptune - Launching from Cecil Spaceport
« on: June 23, 2020, 12:47:42 PM »
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Re: Spaceship Neptune - Launching from Cecil Spaceport
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Spaceship Neptune - Launching from Cecil Spaceport
« Reply #2 on: June 24, 2020, 06:37:35 AM »
Test flights from Cecil... very cool... 8)
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Re: Spaceship Neptune - Launching from Cecil Spaceport
« Reply #3 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.

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