The fact that it was done by a bird is even more amazing
If you read the article you will see it was done by a fruit
Two minutes into its flight, the rocket reached the Kármán line, the internationally-recognised border for space at 100km. A minute later, it reached it's peak altitude of 121.6km.
I would be happy to just dream in this kind of joy.
Wow, that's awesome! New Zealand has a surprising amount of spaceflight activity...
Wasn't it New Zealand that had that old rocket builder guy who drove around in rocket propelled gocart? V1 styke but still.
I think it was also a New Zealander who was running a project to make their own cruise missile (before the government asked him to stop)
Yeah that's the same guy!
Oh he's awesome!
Mach 5.6, or around 1.9 kilometres a second
One of these numbers is wrong, as the mach number is defined using the local speed of sound, which changes a lot as you go further up in the thinner atmosphere.
If anyone tried to do this here, they would put him behind bars and let him rot.
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