Tycho Brahe days list. One should also note that Denmark was on the Julian calendar until 1700, when it switched to the Gregorian calendar. Medieval calendars often contained lists of "dies Ægyptiaci", "Egyptian days", that also were held to be unlucky. The Egyptian days were: These too were days considered unlucky to begin any enterprise. Physicians were especially discouraged from performing bloodletting on the Egyptian days. Tycho Brahe days In the folklore of Scandinavia, Tycho Brahe days (Danish: "Tycho Brahes-dage"; Norwegian: "Tycho Brahedager"; Swedish: "Tycho Brahe-dagar") are days judged to be especially unlucky, especially for magical work, and important business transactions[ and personal
HEAT 1X Tycho Brahe during the winter 2010-11. After again experiencing a technical problem with the auto-sequence, the rocket and spacecraft went up in the air. After lift-off, HEAT 1X Tycho Brahe achieved supersonic speed but its flight path deviated from the vertical, so Mission Control had to shut the engine off after 21 seconds. Maximum altitude was estimated to 2.8 km and the ground track was 8.5 km. Booster and spacecraft separated but a parachute was torn off the booster due to excessive air drag. Tycho Brahe's parachutes didn't unfold correctly either, so the spacecraft received a large bulge at the 26 G