The fact that it was done by a bird is even more amazing
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If you read the article you will see it was done by a fruit
Two minutes into its flight, the rocket reached the KΓ‘rmΓ‘n 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...
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.
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!
If anyone tried to do this here, they would put him behind bars and let him rot.