The HEAT 1x rocket and Tycho Brahe spacecraft stand assembled and ready to launch in an undated picture.
Private spaceflight took one giant step forward this week when the Tycho Brahe craft lifted off atop the HEAT-1X rocket engine Friday (pictured) from a platform in the Baltic Sea.
Tycho表包括了全天顆恆星數據。
Tycho Brahe: An important Danish astronomer of the 16th century. His ground breaking research allowed Sir Isaac Newton to come up with the theory of gravity.
Seen from above, the spacecraft Tycho Brahe is settled onto the HEAT-1X rocket engine.
The lunar crater named after Tycho Brahe, a 16th century Danish astronomer, near the moon's south pole, is 85km across.
I sit writing this from the hangar-sized Tycho Brahe plenary hall.
In the Tycho Brahe craft, the astronaut-pilot (or crash-test dummy, as pictured) half-stands, half-sits-strapped in except for his or her arms.
In preparation for the June 3 launch, Tycho Brahe is hoisted atop the HEAT-1X rocket engine in an undated picture.
照片左上方的紅圈部分是SN 1572，它通常也被稱為“第谷超新星（Tycho’s Supernova）”，以紀念文藝復興時期的天文學家第谷·布拉赫（Tycho Brahe）。
During its test flight, Tycho Brahe reached a height of 1.7 miles (2.8 kilometers), the Post reported.
This impact released an enormous amount of energy, excavating a crater about twice as large as the lunar crater Tycho.
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