Uploaded March 2019 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Timestamps:

7:35 - Mads introduces himself
10:00 - Applying to be the world's first amateur astronaut candidate
12:20 - What is currently happening in CS?
13:35 - What has Mads been working on lately?
16:07 - Will the Spica booster have a parachute system?
17:22 - Will the 3 cluster parachute system on the Spica capsule be any different from the one we already tested?
20:22 - What are the easiest, and hardest parts of designing a parachute?
22:42 - Is it cheaper to make our own parachutes? Why don't we use comercially available one's?
25:20 - How and where did you learn so much about parachutes?
27:08 - Does CS offer internships for students?
27:44 - What temperatures and speeds to we expect to reach during a suborbitals reentry?
28:10 - Ways we are looking to slowdown the capsule as soon aspossible.
29:10 - Testing capsule reentry with 3D printed models.
30:30 - If you could do any experiment with your parachutes, what would you want to measure and how?
33:23 - At what altitude does the capsule and ballute experience peak heating?
33:53 - Will the space capsule be pressurized? Astronaut suit?
35:17 - Where to follow our second parachute developer, Benjamin.
36:05 - Why do three parachutes on seperate lines don't get tangled up?
37:15 - Do we know who is going to be the first CS astronaut?
37:55 - What will the astronaut experience from liftoff to splashdown?
43:55 - How hard is the water impact going to be under parachute?
45:02 - How is the correct angle of impact with water achieved for the sapce capsule?
46:36 - Is there any chance of the booster crashing into the capsule after seperation?
47:15 - Is there any difference in slowing an object down with one big parachute vs a few smaller ones? Why will we use a 3 cluster parachute system instead of one large parachute?
49:48 - Packing large parachutes.
50:13 - CS is on exhibition in Denmark's Technical Museum.
51:30 - How do you calculate the parachute size for a given load?
52:16 - What materials will be used for the space capsule's ballute?
55:40 - What are the limits to our parachute simulation technology, if any?
57:36 - How does the parachute ejection system work?
59:44 - Have we ever looked at Graphene for a meshed chute to slow down decent prior to main chutes?
1:00:41 - Will there be a launch escape system for the space capsule?
1:05:03 - Do we plan to do any full system parachute tests?
1:05:31 - Keeping the capsule afloat after splashdown.
1:07:00 - Is it possible to maneuver the parachutes to retrieve the rocket near the initial point of lift off?
1:08:16 - How do we predict and calculate the landing point of our parachutes?
1:10:12 - At which point are the parachutes deployed on the Nexø rockets?
1:12:30 - Where can you make a donation to the project?
1:13:37 - How long does it take you to make one parachute? And when is the first manned flight going to be?
1:14:57 - Are we planning a full-scale parachute test anytime soon?
1:17:10 - What made you want to be a candidate for an amateur-built rocket?
1:19:28 - How to become an astronaut, what professions should be pursued?
1:20:43 - What steps have we taken towards astronaut training? How extensive is the training going to be?
1:21:25 - Space capsule seat desing.
1:23:00 - What are the legal and insurance concerns of shipping a man on an amateur-built rocket?
1:24:34 - Thoughts on the first European manned spaceflight?
1:26:20 - How can someone join CS?
1:28:12 - Do we do drop tests like NASA?
1:29:43 - Do we play Kerbal Space Program?
1:30:28 - How many volunteers are there in the organization?
1:30:33 - Have we ever thought of using tandem parachute jumps to emulater higher loads?
1:32:35 - Have we considered collaborating with a foreign space agency? f.e. ISRO.
1:34:15 - Do we have a discord channel or any other way for people to communicate with us?
1:35:30 - What type of needles did you use to sew kevlar?
1:36:33 - Is there any way for people outside of Copenhagen to participate in the project?
1:38:05 - Is there a use case for compressed air instead of parachutes?
1:39:00 - If we got high enough funding, would we consider going to orbit?