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Post edited 7:34 pm – December 5, 2009 by Rocket-To-The-Moon

I ran across this group from Denmark and it looks very similar to what CSTART may be in a few years. This might be a good group to make contact with. Obviously they will not abandon their project to help us, but I'm sure that we can learn a lot from them.

This is a non-profit suborbital space endeavor, based entirely on sponsors and volunteers.
Our mission is to launch a human being into space.

We are working fulltime to develop a series of suborbital space vehicles – designed to pave the way for manned space flight on a micro size spacecraft.

Two rocket vehicles are under development. A small unmanned sounding rocket, named Hybrid Atmospheric Test Vehicle or HATV and a larger booster rocket named Hybrid Exo Atmospheric Transporter or HEAT, designed to carry a micro spacecraft into a suborbital trajectory in space.

The mission has a 100% peacefull purpose and is not in any way involved in carrying explosive, nuclear, biological and chemical payloads.

We intend to share all our techninal information as much as possible, within the laws of EU-export control.

http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/

Not too bad. I think that we can expand it some so that it gets to the point of why we are contacting them (to obtain technical data on hybrid rockets, organization, fundrasing, promotion, ect). An introduction to CLLARE and OHKLA will help them see our vision and build rapport. Based on what their website says, it looks like they are fully willing to provide us with full plans to their hybrid rocket so that may be something worth directly requesting (perhaps a second correspondence).

To Whom it May Concern:

I am Ms/Mr/Dr. _____ , representing CSTART, the Collaborative Space Travel and Research Team. We stand for open collaboration and sharing of knowledge around the world for the purpose of the exploration of our solar system via manned space missions. We are just now assembling our members and becoming an official non-profit organization so we have quite a way to go. One of our immediate goals is researching hybrid boosters as a means of propulsion. As a community we are ecstatic to see your achievements in that field and will continue to follow your progress with enthusiasm. I understand that your organization has a similar philosophy to our own regarding the sharing of knowledge and research data. We'd be honored to have your input if your organization would like to contribute to our cause. Please visit our website httt://cstart.org if you'd like to learn more about us. We would be glad of your company and experienced advice if you would like to start dialogue.

Yours truly,

______

Fixed spelling errors and changed wording a bit. Still trying to work in stuff about CLLARE and OHKLA. Need to go watch The Office for a bit. Hopefully then the muse will tickle me again.

To Whom it May Concern:

I am Ms/Mr/Dr. _____ , representing CSTART, the Collaborative Space Travel and Research Team. We stand for open collaboration and sharing of knowledge around the world for the purpose of the exploration of our solar system via manned and unmanned space missions. Our planned programs include OHKLA, our suborbital rocket designing plans, and CLLARE, the program for our Lunar ambitions. We are just now assembling our members and becoming an official non-profit organization so we have quite a way to go. One of our immediate goals is researching hybrid boosters as a means of propulsion. As a community we are ecstatic to see your achievements in that field and will continue to follow your progress with enthusiasm. I understand that your organization has a similar philosophy to our own regarding the sharing of knowledge and research data. We'd be honored to have your input if your organization would like to contribute to our cause. Please visit the CSTART website httt://cstart.org if you'd like to learn more about us. We would be glad of your company and experienced advice if you would like to start dialogue.

Yours truly,

______

Perhaps a more direct quote of the mission statement would be appropriate but for now I've fixed it to include unmanned missions. Anything else?

Pretty good. We may want to specifically direct them to the forum, though, since there isn't much to see on the rest of the site.

Rocket-To-The-Moon said:

This brings up a good point, we don't really have a one stop page that defines what exactly we have planned. Maybe we could have a "Missions" link in the navigation bar. This page would be updated frequently to match the current plan.

On a similar note, I showed the CSTART home page to a work colleague. In the end of our short discussion, his first impression was something along the lines of "Just briefly looking doesn't make me want to donate".

I'm not an expert in this type of stuff, but somehow we need to get a good first impression so that people will know we are serious.

Post edited 7:41 pm – December 7, 2009 by noumena

I worked in a non-profit for about a year, and about six months of that was talking to people on the phones. Getting someone to be interested in something like this is about casting the vision. To do this you need to have a very specific goal that you can get excited about too, and you need to have a well-rounded repetoire of trivia regarding the issue. Perhaps we should focus on OHKLA stuff and about how now is the time when space is finally starting to become for everyone. Right now, we are early European explorers. We know there's something on the other side of that great expanse, and that we can get there in one piece, but no one is willing to fund the trip. Perhaps we should start a new forum thread for this?