We are tired, but satisfied enjoying our pizza and beer. We are processing the video footage and are almost ready to upload. At 22:30 we are going to watch “Hart van Nederland” which is a national television program. They joined us almost the whole day and made an item about the launch.

So the story of our launch. Yesterday we thought to be almost ready, though some small problems kept the concept launcher crew up till 1:30… For us the launch day started at 8:30, when we arrived at the launch site. Almost directly Wouter’s phone started to ring. The first journalist was asking for directions to our site. In the mean time the capsule crew started with their final preparations. Today the concept rocket was not the only rocket to be launched, we were placed in the fourth launch window. Between the flights of first year rockets, the capsule crew did the final preparations.

In the meantime Wouter and I ran from radio interview to camera crew telling our story. We are really curious to all the items the press will publish. We already made nu.nl and TV Gelderland (16:25). I am pretty sure SBS6 will broadcast its item, (and don’t forget Radio 2 (1.33.30) ). The question now is, what will be in the newspapers tomorrow…

Lastly, there is one thing which we did not tell. We also tested a new rocket motor in one of the small rockets. The performance is very promising (an Isp of almost 200 s) . The footage with the bright yellow flame (in the other website item) might be the first video of a new motor concept which will propel the Stratos II to its record altitude. Later this weekend Hein, team leader of the solid propulsion group will blog about it.