“But he won’t be launching that from his pasture near Chilliwack. He acknowledged he’ll need a proper site where passing airplanes would not be at risk – something along the lines of the military test facility at Cold Lake, Alta.”

From Wikipedia: The Kármán line lies at an altitude of 100 km (62.1 miles) above the Earth’s surface, and is commonly used to define the boundary between the Earth’s atmosphere and outer space.[1] This definition is accepted by the Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI), which is an international standard setting and record-keeping body for aeronautics and astronautics.

I agree, and no need for fancy-pants Wikipedia-ing to show that 5kms is way sub orbit. I mean, jets fly over 10kms!

It’s pretty cool that he’s able to do that, but to be fair, people claiming that space is anything below 100kms annoys me. Especially calling it orbit is lame, because there’s actually no chance a bottle rocket could orbit earth at such altitudes.