CyberSpace CEO Rayne Murray was asked to comment on the mission.
“Well, we were worried that it might go kaput, after all, this was its first launch and, y’know… rockets don’t always do what you want them to. But, we were able to make it work, and we’re proud of our accomplishment. We’ll refurbish it, we’ll make another fairing and we’ll launch another payload, keep getting government funding… make more of them [Tsiolkovsky] and move onto bigger, orbital rockets in the next few years.”
CyberSpace’s “Tsiolkovsky” suborbital sounding rocket lit its solid engines and ascended to 110km, jettisoned its fairings, deployed a 100kg mass simulator, reentered and deployed a parachute to splashdown and be recovered and reused.
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Tsiolkovsky on the pad prior to launch
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Tsiolkovsky lifting off the pad
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A camera on Tsiolkovsky, this picture was taken just after engine cutoff
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Tsiolkovsky jettisoning fairings, revealing the mass simulator
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Tsiolkovsky after reentry, just 4.9 km (~7.5 mi) above sea level
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Tsiolkovsky parachuting nose down, to avoid waterlogging the engine
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Tsiolkovsky after splashdown, ready to be recovered