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A Delft Dynamics camera system on Stratos

Yesterday the Stratos II team and Delft Dynamics, a TU Delft spin-off company that produces small unmanned aerial vehicles, agreed on flying a small camera and video link on-board of the Stratos II rocket.   Delft Dynamics is a company that produces small unmanned aerial vehicles. They started off in 2006, founded by 4 engineers…
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Nominated for NLF prize

Today we received the exciting news that DARE has been nominated for the Nederlands Lucht- en Ruimtevaat Fonds (NLF) prize for our work on Stratos II. The NLF prize is awarded to three of the best ideas in the space and aerospace area from the Dutch WO, HBO and MBO students. After the nominations, a…
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Stratos II nominated for the Luchtvaartfonds

  The Stratos II team is pleased to announce that it has been nominated for the “Luchtvaart- en Ruimtevaart fonds” prize 2013!   As announced today by the Dutch “Luchtvaart- en Ruimtevaart fonds“ (Aeronautics and Astronautics fund), the Stratos II project has been nominated for their yearly prize to promote practical educational projects in the…
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National Instruments workshop

Last Tuesday a workshop on radio transmission and receiving took place, jointly organized by DARE and National Instruments. The workshop took place in the Korolev lab in the EWI building of the TU Delft.   National Instruments is a worldwide leading company on the area of data acquisition and mechatronics. Measurement equipment developed by them…
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Interest drink

Tuesday evening we held the annual DARE interest drink again. We had a massive number of students who are interested in joining DARE attend the drink. In the end about 100 students ranging from first year Bsc students to Msc students turned up. Motivations range from students looking for a project to write their Msc…
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CanSat Launch Day 2013 NLD39 summary

Today the launch campaign NLD39, the CanSat launch day of 2013, took place at ASK ‘t Harde in the Veluwe, Netherlands. A total of 4 CanSat rockets, each carrying 5 CanSats on-board were planned for launch. Along with these were the Stratos II Concept Launcher and a rocket from the NAVRO. Next to that the…
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Study Tour 2013: Bears and SpaceX

This is the third and final update on the 2013 DARE study tour where nine DARE members visit the United States to present at the Joint Propulsion Conference (JPC) and visit various companies. During our last week we not only got to see marvels of technology, but also of nature.

Study Tour 2013: Conference

This is the second update on the DARE study tour. Nine DARE members traveled to the west coast of the United States to present a paper at the Joint Propulsion Conference (JPC) and to visit various aerospace companies. Friday the 12th Sea Launch in Long Beach was visited. We got a full tour of both…
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Study Tour 2013: USCRPL and Mojave

Tuesday the ninth of July, nine DARE members flew into Los Angeles to participate in the 2013 Study Tour. The goal of this years study tour is to present a paper at the Joint Propulsion Conference in San Jose on the efforts by the Stratos Propulsion team. In addition various space and rocketry related companies…
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Stratos II article in the Telegraaf

Happen to have seen “De Telegraaf” newspaper this morning? The Saturday science page includes a nice article about Stratos II! For those who do not receive the paper, check it out here:  

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