Last Friday we received our custom-made transport boxes for the Stratos II rocket and all of the tools and equipment that will be needed during the launch campaign in Huelva (Spain). We would like to thank Holland Packing for making these custom-made crates for us, to ensure that the rocket and all of the components are securely…
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Introduction Three beautifully crafted parts were made by GBS Gearbox Services International (Schaaf- en Boorwerk Rotterdam B.V.); a brand new set of three AL 7075-T6 clamp band rings and an AL 6082-T6 fairing. These are crucial structural components for the Stratos II rocket and thus the highest degree of accuracy and finishing are required. Clamp band…
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Recently we received two very nice 1.5 m long, heat resistant fibreglass epoxy composite tubes from Teakle Composites for the Stratos II rocket. The tubes were originally intended for both the payload and parachute compartment. The nose-cone supplied by Futura Composites however already contains a tube section used for the payload bay. Still, one of the…
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On Sunday the 7th of September the Stratos II launch crew conducted a test of the entire actuation system of the Stratos II rocket. This ran through the important systems demonstrating that it can handle the oxidizer as expected. The test involved filling the rocket with the same equipment as it will be in Spain, and rehearsing and optimising…
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The dress rehearsal of the Stratos II launch took place on the 28th and 29th of August 2014 inside the Dreamhal Building of the TU Delft. During the rehearsal the electronics team, capsule team and the propulsion team assembled their systems. Moreover, the launch tower set-up and the mounting of the rocket were rehearsed and…
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The new website is already buzzing with activity, and here is yet another news blog concerning yet another team of the Stratos II project; the Capsule & Recovery team. The past few weeks we have performed considerable rocket-craft in our workplaces and the composites lab of the faculty of Aerospace Engineering. The main objective was to…
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Electronics Team One of the sub-teams within the Stratos II project is the electronics team. In the picture below you can see the most advanced device ever developed and built by the DARE electronics team, the Stratos II main electronics stack. This is what years of experience handed down by multiple members and new developments have lead…
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Between June and August 2014 five static tests (#6 – #10) took place with the DHX-200 Aurora hybrid propulsion system after the motor had been on the test stand five times at the facilities of TNO, Rijswijk in 2013. This was the final set of full scale ground tests to be conducted with this system before the launch…
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Today (the 24th of June 2014) we are officially 100 days away from the launch of Stratos II! And is was noticable here in Delft, as everyone has been very busy in the last few weeks. Our amounts of updates on the site have been a bit behind due to all the activities, so let…
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DARE is proud to announce that in cooperation with Futura Composites the glass fiber nosecone and upper body tube of the Stratos II project have been produced. The body tube and nosecone are critical parts of the capsule. They carry all the structural loads that the capsule will experience during flight. During the past few months a…
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