Last Monday (the 14th of May) representatives of DARE visited a social event organised by the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering in Delft. The event was organised by the AIAA in the Netherlands by an organisation member who was traveling through the Netherlands. There are around 150 members…
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Dear readers. Here is, just before the end of the month, finally the new Stratos II newsletter. In this small, concise document you can read about the latest major developments of the Statos II project. This time: The engine tests and the launch site selection.
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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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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DARE is proud to announce the cooperation with Peekstok, a metal working company from the Rotterdam area. Peekstok will be producing several bulkheads for the Stratos II capsule module and the injector manifold for the hybrid engine. Peekstok is a metal working company that specializes in the machining of parts for the shipbuilding and…
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Below here you can find the very first DARE – Stratos II newsletter. This newsletter is made as a small general overview of our activities that we aim to publish to our relations and to the world regularly to keep you updated of our activities.
The last months the Stratos II capsule team spent a lot time in finishing the design of the Stratos II Capsule. Finally last Monday they presented the final design of to all other DARE members. The main purpose of the capsule is to provide a safe structure for the payloads and electronics and to bring…
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In the previous post you read on our website you will have been able to see that the last tests at the TNO laboratory a few weeks ago did not end so well for our hybrid rocket engine (article). Just like the last tests in May the combustion chamber failed a few seconds into the…
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Developing and building a rocket is never smooth sailing, as has been shown again. Last Wednesday the Stratos II propulsion team was ready for another test of the Aurora engine at the test facility at TNO. Unfortunately again, just like the previous test, the rocket motor combustion chamber ruptured a few seconds into the burn.…
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In the dark rocket test tunnel at TNO in Rijswijk the biggest machine ever build by Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering has been erected to demonstrate its power in the full scale, full duration tests of the Stratos II rocket engine. Already in May this year we were shown the first glimpses of what…
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