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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As reported, two solid fuel grains where produced last week. After casting the molten fuel into the liner, it shrinks significantly during cooling. This shrinkage gives rise to a risk of internal porosities and tears in the grains. This porosities will cause uneven regression of the fuel grain and less stable burning. This is…
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Dear readers. It has been quite a while, but we finally put out another newsletter on the Stratos II project. In this small, concise document you can read in a short summary about the latest developments of the Statos II project. For the latest updates and more in depth information check our online blog updates…
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Between June and August 2014 five static tests (#6 – #10) took place with the DHX-200 Aurora hybrid propulsion system after the motor had been on the test stand five times at the facilities of TNO, Rijswijk in 2013. This was the final set of full scale ground tests to be conducted with this system before the launch…
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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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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 decision has been made; Stratos II will fly on a hybrid rocket engine. A full scale one-stage hybrid engine using nitrous oxide as oxidizer and as a fuel sorbitol with a number of additives will be used to carry the payloads on board of the rocket to the 50km mark. The decision…
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We have updated the website to allow visitors to receive updates on Stratos by mail. In the sidebar on the left there is the possibility to subscribe by mail, by entering your email in the textbox and clicking subscribe. You will receive no more than one email per day.
Today I finished importing the weblog of the Stratos I project. During the launch campaign we kept a daily weblog of the launch campaign. Now that it is finally imported, take a look at it! I also added a page with general information about the Stratos I rocket. More technical information will probably come in…
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