Staffan Persson set to take part in national laser champs, after launching a rocket into space.
Staffan Persson will casually launch a rocket into space on Saturday night, before trying to find his inner warp speed at next week s Laser national championships in Wellington. Persson, who hails from Stockholm in Sweden, has been in the country since mid-December (he got out of managed isolation on New Year s Eve) to oversee the launch of a small communications satellite being launched by Rocket Lab from their base at Mahia on the East Coast. They have a small 5-10 minute window to launch the rocket to ensure it follows a certain orbit in space, 1200km above Earth.