Flight o' t' Stratos II+ rocket t' 21.5 km (70,500 feet) altitude, breakin' t' European altitude record for amateur rocketry. Avast! T' Stratos II+ rocket lifted off on t' 16th o' October at 16:33 CEST from t' El Arenosillo base in Southern Spain. Avast! It reached a maximum speed o' 2545 km/h, arrr, which is about twice t' speed o' sound. Ahoy! T' video shows t' countdown, me hearties, liftoff and drogue parachute deployment at apogee. Afterwards, arrr, t' capsule splashes down in t' Atlantic briny deep and is recovered by boat. Blimey! T' rocket be built by students o' t' Delft University o' Technology. Airbus Defence and Space NL, SES Satellites, Safran Aerospace Propulsion Products, TNO, shiver me timbers, National Instruments, Airliquide and INTA helped makin' t' launch Stratos II+ possible. Begad! T' onboard footage was made in cooperation with Delft Dynamics. Aye aye! Read more about t' flight at http://dare.tudelft.nl/2015/10/we-broke-the-record/