Month: February 2014

Conclusion Active Control Minor 2013-2014

On Friday 10th of January, the minor 2013/14, requested by DARE, proudly presented DARE’s first actively stabilized rocket. This year’s project, “design, construction and testing of a Stability Augmentation System (SAS) for a sounding rocket” culminated with the successful development of the V7S rocket, a modified version of the original CanSat Launcher V7 which now…
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Propellant grain failure analysis

Over the past week, the propulsion team has been busy preparing for the last full-scale test. During the previous test, we encountered another burn trough of the chamber (see the previous story). Investigation of the chamber and grain afterwards suggested that the grain cracked during operation resulting in the flame reaching the wall.   The…
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