Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering
Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering is one of the largest and most advanced student rocketry teams of the world. With over 18 years of experience in high-power rocketry, our goal is to reach space with a fully student-built rocket. As a Dreamteam of Delft University of Technology, we aim at providing students with a hands-on experience that is unique in this world. Next to our Stratos and Aether flagship projects, the society also conducts fundamental research in all fields of sounding rocketry, such as propulsion, control, structural design and recovery.
Aiming for Space
Above the Kármán line, above 100 kilometers altitude, where no student team has gone before! Designed, built, and tested by students, Stratos IV will democratize space, launching scientific payloads to over 100 km in 2020.
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Within DARE we are always looking for new, enthusiastic students with a passion for rocketry and spaceflight. To become a member of the society, one can either apply to join a project directly, or via our apply for our small rocket project. The small rocket project is an introductory project, designed for freshman students, in which we teach you all the basics of rocketry. Outside the theory, you will also build your own small rocket in groups, and launch it to an altitude of rougly one kilometer.
JOIN DIRECTLYJOIN VIA SMALL ROCKET PROJECTSupersonic Research
Aether, our medium-class launcher, reaches supersonic speeds at low altitudes. It features the largest solid motor ever developed by DARE, as well as an active stabilization mechanism to follow the optimal trajectory to succes!
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Research Areas
From deeply frozen liquid oxygen, to multistage launcher design, to advanced stabilization of rockets. Our research and development projects forcus on the developments of new technologies for usage in the rockets of tomorrow!
CanSat
The CanSat Launcher V7 is our the smallest vehicle in our fleet. Powered by the reliable DX-1EE solid rocket motor, the rocket can reach an altitude of roughly one kilometer, carrying several CanSat payloads on board.
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Update on the Small Rocket Project
Every year Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering organizes the Small Rocket Project (SRP). This program is tailored around first year students, and teaches them the basics of rocketry. Within the four[…]
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CanSat Launchday 2019
The 29th of March marked the first DARE launch day of the calendar year in the Netherlands. At the sunny heather of ASK ‘t Harde in Gelderland, six rockets were[…]
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Stratos IV Launch Rescheduled
In any space project there comes a point to make a decision on whether or not to commit to launching at the planned date. Over the recent weeks, the Stratos[…]
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