Re:Momo-3 is Japan's first private rocket to reach space
by Causality1 on Monday May 06, 2019 @03:27AM
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"Go straight up until you leave the atmosphere and then fall down" is a radically different proposition than reaching orbit. You could lift an unprotected human being to space with a 700kg rocket. Getting him to orbit would require a 9,000kg rocket.
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Re:Momo-3 is Japan's first private rocket to reach space
by walrus01 on Monday May 06, 2019 @05:40AM
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Yes, exactly, amateurs have gone well above 100km (62.5 miles).
https://rocketry.wordpress.com/2014/08/18/amateur-rocket-tea...
Re:Momo-3 is Japan's first private rocket to reach space
by cyberfart on Monday May 06, 2019 @11:24AM
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To be clear, only one amateur rocketry team (the one in the link) ever made it to space.
Re:Momo-3 is Japan's first private rocket to reach space
by plugger on Wednesday May 08, 2019 @09:00PM
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And to be honest a reasonable portion of that team was made up of aerospace professionals. You kinda expect to win your local basketball comp if you have a team with more than one NBA player slumming it for the love of the game.