Hello, my name is Marco Geurtsen and I am an Electrical Engineer in the DARE Advanced Control Team. In this blog, I will inform you about the recent activities within the ACT and DARE. The DARE society is on the edge of launching its largest project in the history of student rocketry. In October 2015,…
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It has cost us about a year, many a night’s worth of sleep, and maybe some of us have gained some grey hairs, but here it finally is: The Stratos II+. To celebrate this milestone we organised a small, official unveiling of the rocket on 3 September. Here, in the presence of sponsors, and members…
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Monday, the 31st of August: A date that for most students in the Netherlands signifies the last day of their summer break. However, at 09:00 in the morning, the launch crew of the Stratos II+ rocket could already be found on campus. The reason for this gathering was the first of a series of 3 launch…
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After the Stratos II launch attempt had run its course and everyone had recovered from the two weeks in Spain, the discussion was started on how to continue the project. Should we build a new rocket and skip the 50 km mark altogether or improve the system and try again? As the majority of the…
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In the month of June the Stratos II+ project team carried out four static motor tests of the DHX-200 Aurora, the engine powering the Stratos II+ rocket, at TNO located in Rijswijk. The goal of these tests was not only to gain confidence in the motor design, they were also necessary to gather detailed performance data in…
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My name is Marco Geurtsen, and I am an Electrical Engineer of the Advanced Control Team. On Friday the 5th of June, the Advanced Control Team successfully performed a second launch with a CanSat V7 to test the sensors of DARE’s first actively stabilized rocket, the V7S. Objective The Advanced Control Team is developing an…
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The past month the propulsion team has been working hard to prepare for the full scale propulsion tests, currently planned for the second week of June. During this test campaign, conducted at the Prins Maurits Lab of TNO, the propulsion team will validate the performance of the DHX-200 Aurora engine. If the initial tests are…
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My name is Marco Geurtsen, and I am an Electrical Engineer in the Advanced Control Team. On Friday the 1st of May, the Advanced Control Team successfully launched a CanSat Launcher V7, to gain flight data which will be used to tune the control algorithms of DARE’s first actively stabilized rocket, the V7S. Project Overview…
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We have been writing blog posts for quite some time now, mainly about technical topics. But what about the people in DARE? In the coming weeks some of our core members will write recurring blog posts about their life in DARE. This week: Bastiaan Bom Name: Bastiaan Bom Study: MSc Embedded Systems Function: External…
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The Liquid Propulsion Team is working hard on the first DARE flight version of a liquid propelled rocket engine. This rocket engine, the Deimos F, is almost ready for testing. In this blog post the design and some of its subsystems are discussed. Overall design The rocket engine will be a bi-propellant liquid engine.…
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