The weekend has started, and with it the two day closure of the INTA launch site. The STRATOS II team however is too dedicated for excessive relaxing. To keep progressing towards the launch, we decided to take part of our equipment back to the camping and set up two working stations; one for the electronics…
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Today was again a busy day full of preparation activities before the launch day next week. The day started early in the morning around 7:00 with the mist still not being fully cleared. The crew enjoyed some breakfast accompanied by ‘typical’ Spanish music. The activities planned for this day were the igniter tests of the…
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Thursday 25th of September, after the arrival of the second group at the launch site INTA, the first day of the launch campaign activities started! The day was started of with inspecting the rocket and the components that were shipped to the launch site. The crates provided by Holland Packing have been emptied and the…
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With only 15 days to go for the launch, the Stratos II team is getting both anxious and excited. This is the time for all the subsystems to integrate their subsystems. Throughout our journey we will keep you updated on all the activities and this article will be one of the many updates that will follow! Clampband System…
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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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On the 25th and 26th of August, the DARE Advanced Control Team (ACT) performed an unique windtunnel experiment with the first actively stabilized rocket of DARE. After 12 months of research and development the V7S rocket, which is a modified version of the CanSat Launcher V7, was tested at the Low Turbulence Tunnel of the…
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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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