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A comment on Lebanon’s forgotten space programme (2013).

Re:Lebanon’s forgotten space programme (2013) by sbierwagen on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @01:14AM (#9849932) 

  The Cedar IV launched in 1963 was so successful that it was 
  commemorated on a stamp. It reached a height of 90 miles (145 km), 
  putting it close to the altitude of satellites in low-earth orbit.
So, sounding rockets, not orbital rockets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sounding_rocket

Quoting myself, from 3 years ago:

  An object in orbit is both high and fast. *Really* high (160km) and 
  *really* fast. (7.8km/s) 
  
  7.8 kilometres per second is 17,000 miles per hour.
They were far, far away from actually putting an object in orbit. Altitude's the easy part, speed's the hard part.
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Re:Lebanon’s forgotten space programme (2013) by nkoren on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @03:30AM (#9850279)
Far from orbit, but still a very impressive achievement, particularly in 1963. As far as I'm aware, no other amateur rocket club has had that kind of success since.
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Re:Lebanon’s forgotten space programme (2013) by th3iedkid on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @02:16AM (#9850074)
Am certainly not aware of mechanics of a rocket but from below quote and [1], seems they weighed in around 1250Kg , given its 1960's and its a tiny state , seems like something few could do .

>> Cedar III launched in 1962 had a length of seven metres and weight of 1,250 kg

[1]:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cedar_rocket

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Re:Lebanon’s forgotten space programme (2013) by avmich on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @02:40AM (#9850139)
Arrrgh, but Lambda-4 was kinda similar... pretty light and quite simple, yet orbital launcher it was. So may be Lebanon had a way forward, which could lead them to orbit...
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Re:Lebanon’s forgotten space programme (2013) by nkoren on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @04:41AM (#9850485)
The Lambda-4 was approximately 9,000kg[1], so we're still talking about a different order of magnitude here.

1: http://orbitalaspirations.blogspot.co.uk/2011/10/japanese-la...

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Re:Lebanon’s forgotten space programme (2013) by astrodust on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @12:40PM (#9852852)
If 160km is considered "really high" then what is a geo-statoionary satellite? Super really mega ultra high?
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