page_title: Copenhagen Suborbitals
section_title: SMARAGD Flight
hierarchical_section_title: Copenhagen Suborbitals / Missions / 2012 missions / SMARAGD Flight
caption_attribution_description: Dansk: Smaragd ligger klar i hangaren på Amager, men de sidste detaljer på elektronikken mangler.
context_page_description: Copenhagen Suborbitals is an amateur crowd-funded, non-open source human space programme. Since its beginning in 2008, Copenhagen Suborbitals has flown five home-built rockets and two mock-up space capsules. Their stated goal is to have one of the members fly into space, on a sub-orbital spaceflight, in a space capsule on the Spica rocket. The organisation was founded by Kristian von Bengtson and by Peter Madsen, who was convicted of the murder of Kim Wall in 2017. Peter Madsen was excluded from Copenhagen Suborbitals in 2014. The organization successfully launched its Nexø II rocket in summer 2018.
  As an amateur organisation, the 55 members use their spare time on the project, while at the same time having regular day-jobs. At the annual general assembly, they elect a chairman and boardmembers. Currently, the chairman is Carsten Olsen.
context_section_description: The SMARAGD rocket (emerald in Danish) is a 5.7 meter two-stage rocket weighing 160 kg, intended to reach an altitude of 8 km, that was used for testing various technological aspects of the operation.
  On July 27, 2012, the team set out from Nexø towards the launch site, intending to launch the SMARAGD rocket. After some initial problems with the remote launch control, the rocket launched successfully just after 1 pm and reached the maximum altitude of 8.2 km. It was evident shortly after take off that the nosecone, containing electronics, broke off during launch, possibly due to the large acceleration of estimated 20 g.
caption: The two-stage Smaragd in the HAB, missing only electronics with Peter Madsen on the right side
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