Tycho Brahe Tycho Brahe Tycho Brahe (; born Tyge Ottesen Brahe; 14 December 154624 October 1601) was a Danish nobleman, astronomer, and writer known for his accurate and comprehensive astronomical and planetary observations. He was born in the then Danish peninsula of Scania. Well known in his lifetime as an astronomer, astrologer and alchemist, he has been described as "the first competent mind in modern astronomy to feel ardently the passion for exact empirical facts." His observations were some five times more accurate than the best available observations at the time. An heir to several of Denmark's principal noble families, he received
HEAT 1X Tycho Brahe successful tests of the solid fuel epoxy and the liquid oxidizer nitrous oxide, which was used in their hybrid rocket HATV ("Hybrid Atmospheric Test Vehicle"). The HATV rocket was only 1/3 size of the final rocket, HEAT. This HEAT rocket ("Hybrid Exo Atmospheric Transporter") with liquid oxygen and polyurethane, would carry the MSC ("the micro-spacecraft") above the 100 km boundary and into space. The MSC was named after Tycho Brahe, and the combination was known as the HEAT-1X TYCHO BRAHE. Gravity would then pull the MSC back to the atmosphere, where the MSC landed on water using parachutes. The first