A rocket carrying a dummy achieved a successful launch last month from a platform in the Baltic Sea. The craft, created by Danish group Copenhagen Suborbital over the course of the last few years, was aiming for an altitude of around 50,000 feet for the launch; it is not yet clear what altitude the HEAT 1-X rocket booster and the Tycho Brahe capsule achieved.
The September 2010 flight failed to achieve full burn, a result, reports say, of a consumer hair dryer failing and a nozzle icing up. (You can’t make this stuff up.)
