Month: June 2013

Stratos II article in the Telegraaf

Happen to have seen “De Telegraaf” newspaper this morning? The Saturday science page includes a nice article about Stratos II! For those who do not receive the paper, check it out here:  

First Aurora rocket motor test series completed

Over the past month, the DAWN team performed three full scale hot fire tests of their 10,000 N thrust / 200,000 Ns impulse DXH-200 “Aurora” motor. The Aurora motor is a hybrid rocket motor being developed for powering the Stratos II rocket to over 50 kilometer altitude beginning 2014. During each of these performed motor…
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First Stratos propulsion tests at TNO

Since some time the DHX-200 Aurora rocket motor for the Stratos II rocket was set ready in the TNO rocket test facility in Rijswijk. This rocket motor that will propel the Stratos II rocket to 50 kilometres altitude of course needs to be tested to make sure that it can perform as expected. Stratos II…
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First official payload for Stratos II

We are proud to announce that Stratos II has gotten the confirmation of its first official payload to be flown aboard of the rocket: the Hungarian institute for energy research will develop a small radiation measurement system to measure radiation levels in the higher layers of the atmosphere.  The Stratos II team has been in contact…
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Launch day NLD38 summary

Friday the 7th of June, the NLD38 launch day organized by DARE and the NAVRO at ASK ‘t Harde at the Veluwe. Contrary to the previous launch day, the weather this time was beautiful: sunshine on both the Thursday and the Friday, nice and warm, with winds blowing from the North / North-East (i.e. favorable…
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