Standing room only - the world's tiniest manned suborbital vehicle
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Leading end of the Tycho Brahe suborbital vehicle showing the observation dome and a full-sized manikin representing the passenger (Photo: Copenhagen Suborbitals)
Engineering sketch for the passenger support of the Tycho Brahe. The nearly standing vertical position of the seat is accommodated through the use of anti-g leg bladders during periods of large acceleration (Photo: Copenhagen Suborbitals)
Cross-section of the Tycho Brahe suborbital passenger capsule (Photo: Copenhagen Suborbitals)
Launch of Tycho Brahe suborbital spacecraft on a 2011 test flight (Photo: Copenhagen Suborbitals)
Launch of Tycho Brahe suborbital spacecraft on a 2011 test flight (Photo: Copenhagen Suborbitals)
Tycho Brahe during fueling of the Heat-1X hybrid rocket (Photo: Copenhagen Suborbitals)
Launch of Tycho Brahe suborbital spacecraft on a 2011 test flight (Photo: Copenhagen Suborbitals)
Launch of Tycho Brahe suborbital spacecraft on a 2011 test flight (Photo: Copenhagen Suborbitals)
Launch of Tycho Brahe suborbital spacecraft on a 2011 test flight (Photo: Copenhagen Suborbitals)
Tycho Brahe mounted on the floating firing platform prior to being towed out into the Atlantic for firing (Photo: Copenhagen Suborbitals)
TM-65 liquid fuel rocket engine - replacement for the hybrid HEAT-1X engine used in initial test firings of the Tycho Brahe (Photo: Copenhagen Suborbitals)
10.5 GHz mobile radio tracking equipment (Photo: Copenhagen Suborbitals)
Article Summary
Generally speaking, companies developing suborbital manned vehicles brag about how much elbow room their spacecraft will provide passengers. They say there will be plenty of room to float around during the weightless portion of the flight, that there will be no fighting for windows, that passengers will comfortably endure the high-g portions of the flight ... and then there's Copenhagen Suborbitals' (CS) Tycho Brahe.
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