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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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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DARE and Project Stratos have recently formalized their cooperation with Advanced Lightweight Engineering BV (ALE) with a sponsorship contract. The contract was signed last Friday afternoon (April the 12th 2013) at the ALE building in Delft. DARE is looking forward to the cooperation with ALE on the design of pressure systems and composite structures for…
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Tuesday was another successful day for the Stratos Team. The Faculty of Aerospace Engineering organized an inflight call with André Kuipers from the International Space Station. The event was also attended by Mark Rutte, the Prime Minister of the Netherlands. The national press covered the story and Frank Engelen, the team leader of Project Stratos…
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Traditionally every mission to space has a mission patch: a unique badge that is representative of the mission. Such a badge can function as a logo of the mission and is usually worn on team clothing. Stratos II can of course not stay behind in that respect. Therefore we designed a patch, which every team…
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Today an article about the upcoming Stratos launch anniversary celebration came out in the Delta. The article features information about the rocket itself, as well as the lecture that will be given tonight by Stratos II project leader Frank Engelen, as part of the celebration. You can read the article here. And of course you…
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Today we added a column by Olga Motsyk titled DARE TO DREAM to the site. This column was previously published in the magazine Leonardo Times, a well respected magazine published by students of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering at the TU Delft. In the column Olga greatly describes the long and hard road that lead…
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Today DARE held a kick off event for Stratos II for the general public in the hall of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering. During this event the Stratos II team gave presentations to interested people about the project and gave opportunity for people to join the project. A lot of interested people showed up, making…
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Interested? Want to join the project? Come visit us during the lunch on Tuesday the 8th of June, in the entrance hall of the EWI building.
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