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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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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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…
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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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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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The Stratos II project is jet again one step closer to lift-off. On the 9th of April, the Capsule team has performed its second series of successful parachute experiments in the Open Jet Facility of the TU-Delft. In contrast to the previous experiments which were on chute stability and drogue vs. squid bag, these tests…
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The Stratos II team is spreading its reach across the borders. The last two weekends DARE members have attended two conferences related to student rocketry both in France and in the UK. The first was the Perseus conference of the 14th and 15th of February in Paris (of which you could have already read more…
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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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