Over the past month, the DAWN team performed three full scale hot fire tests of their 10,000 N thrust / 200,000 Ns impulse DXH-200 “Aurora” motor. The Aurora motor is a hybrid rocket motor being developed for powering the Stratos II rocket to over 50 kilometer altitude beginning 2014. During each of these performed motor…
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Since some time the DHX-200 Aurora rocket motor for the Stratos II rocket was set ready in the TNO rocket test facility in Rijswijk. This rocket motor that will propel the Stratos II rocket to 50 kilometres altitude of course needs to be tested to make sure that it can perform as expected. Stratos II…
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We are proud to announce that Stratos II has gotten the confirmation of its first official payload to be flown aboard of the rocket: the Hungarian institute for energy research will develop a small radiation measurement system to measure radiation levels in the higher layers of the atmosphere. The Stratos II team has been in contact…
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Friday the 7th of June, the NLD38 launch day organized by DARE and the NAVRO at ASK ‘t Harde at the Veluwe. Contrary to the previous launch day, the weather this time was beautiful: sunshine on both the Thursday and the Friday, nice and warm, with winds blowing from the North / North-East (i.e. favorable…
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It has been a bit quite on our website regarding the TNO test campaign. That is because there is currently not a lot happening. The wind is still not blowing from the right direction and we are hoping for better weather. The forecasts for this Wednesday and Thursday look good so keep an eye open…
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With great proud we announce that our subteam DAWN won the main UniversiteitsFonds teamwork prize! DAWN was awarded the prize for their efforts in designing the hybrid engine which is to power the Stratos II rocket. The team spent the last three years designing, building and validating various hybrid test engines. Virtually all work was…
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For the latest updates on the propulsion test campaign at TNO, click here. Today the hybrid propulsion team “Dawn” was awarded the TU Delft Universiteitsfonds teamwork prize for their work and progress over the past three years. After three teams, including Dawn, gave a the presentation this afternoon to a jury and audience, they…
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Last Saturday the propulsion team performed a successful ignition test. During a rainy test day on the architecture field the full scale motor ignited on the first try. This is the build up for the full scale tests that the team will start with this week. The ignition makes use of a bypass valve supplying…
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Last Saturday the propulsion team performed a successful ignition test. During a rainy test day on the architecture field the full scale motor ignited on the first try. This is the build up for the full scale tests that the team will start with this week. The ignition makes use of a bypass valve…
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During the last few weeks you have frequently been able to see updates of the Stratos II propulsion team working on the test engine for the project. Today the engine and the test setup were presented to the world. In the afternoon DARE members, DARE alumni, TU Delft professors and other associates had…
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