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You might be interested in Copenhagen Suborbitals (copsub.com): A danish group trying to reach space in a DIY fashion financed by donations. It's quite impressive what they've already achieved with not that much more than duct tape!

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That is amazing, thank you so much for linking it. I did not know about them, and it does indeed seem like they have made a lot of progress. I'll be following them from now :)

as the article says, space != orbit. i don't see how you can get 8 km/s delta-v in a garage.

edit: doesn't mean it's not interesting, but orbit is so much more challenging than just space it's not funny.

It's true that orbit is more challenging, but you have no hope of getting there if you can't do a suborbital jump first. Aiming for suborbital first might see them get a lot more funding if they succeed. You need to learn to crawl before you can run.

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