Category: Blog

First launchday thrills

Next week will be a major milestone. Although the flight of the concept launcher is a very important test for the capsule team, something else excites me even more (and if you know me, you know that launching rockets makes me happy). Next week we will announce our project to the rest of world. We…
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Stratos II: Halfway to Space in Leonardo Times

Today the March edition of the Leonardo Times was released. This is the Journal of the Society of Aerospace Engineering Students ‘Leonardo da Vinci’. In this edition an article written by Stratos project members is published about Stratos II. It elaborates on the design of the solid propulsion, hybrid propulsion, capsule and electronics. To read…
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Succesful hybrid motor injector test

Last Tuesday Project DAWN, the hybrid motor group of project Stratos II, had a successful test motor injector test on the former architecture field. The test was conducted to prove the injector concept for the test motor, the feed system setup in general and to observe the nitrous oxide flow behavior. During the test the…
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Stratos II in the Delta

Today an article about the upcoming Stratos launch anniversary celebration came out in the Delta. The article features information about the rocket itself, as well as the lecture that will be given tonight by Stratos II project leader Frank Engelen, as part of the celebration. You can read the article here. And of course you…
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Stratos graduation project

Today Bart Hertog, a member of the Stratos electronics team, graduated on a Stratos-inspired project: Incremental Non-Linear Dynamic Inversion Control of a Sounding Rocket. His project was inspired by the successful launch of the Stratos I rocket, and based on the active control canard system designed by the 2009 Stratos DSE (Design Synthesis Exercise–bachelor graduation…
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Stratos Graduation Room

Bryan, Hein, Frank Recently, three graduating members of the Stratos team were assigned to the graduation room 9.03 of the Aerospace Engineering faculty. All three are graduating on Stratos-related projects, so this will allow them to devote more time to the project and therefore speed it up. Bryan is graduating on “Real-time attitude and position determination system…
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Hybrid motor test bed production

Early on in project DAWN, we decided that many tests would have to be conducted to ensure that we can prove that a hybrid motor is a viable concept for Stratos II. To do this, we needed a test bed with a fast turnaround time. While we already had a test motor, it had to…
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Solid Six Update

In December 2010, it was announced by the Stratos II project team that the deadline for the proof-of-concept for the two competing propulsion teams (Solid and Hybrid) will be in June. By the June launch day, the teams should demonstrate their capability of producing a propulsion system that could take Stratos II to its goal…
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DARE To Dream

Today we added a column by Olga Motsyk titled DARE TO DREAM to the site. This column was previously published in the magazine Leonardo Times, a well respected magazine published by students of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the TU Delft. In the column Olga greatly describes the long and hard road that lead…
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