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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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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Electronics Team One of the sub-teams within the Stratos II project is the electronics team. In the picture below you can see the most advanced device ever developed and built by the DARE electronics team, the Stratos II main electronics stack. This is what years of experience handed down by multiple members and new developments have lead…
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Today (the 24th of June 2014) we are officially 100 days away from the launch of Stratos II! And is was noticable here in Delft, as everyone has been very busy in the last few weeks. Our amounts of updates on the site have been a bit behind due to all the activities, so let…
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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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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 Bart Hertog, a member of the Stratos electronics team, graduated on a Stratos-inspired project: Incremental Non-Linear Dynamic Inversion Control of a Sounding Rocket. His project was inspired by the successful launch of the Stratos I rocket, and based on the active control canard system designed by the 2009 Stratos DSE (Design Synthesis Exercise–bachelor graduation…
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Bryan, Hein, Frank Recently, three graduating members of the Stratos team were assigned to the graduation room 9.03 of the Aerospace Engineering faculty. All three are graduating on Stratos-related projects, so this will allow them to devote more time to the project and therefore speed it up. Bryan is graduating on “Real-time attitude and position determination system…
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