On Tuesday the 10th of February, a Design Review session was held for the Stratos II+ Rocket to be launched in October 2015. Building upon the experiences gained in Spain during October 2014, the rocket incorporates changes to prevent the problems that were experienced. Below follows a small summary from each sub-department: Capsule Redesign Martin Olde…
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The Small Rocket Project (SRP) is DARE’s project for first-year students. While we do try to advertise it as a fun and exciting process, unfortunately it is not always smooth runnings. One of these problems is the stricter BSA (Binding Study Advice) requirement that cropped up in the past few years, putting students under pressure…
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What to do if you have a flight ready capsule system and suddenly find you have too much time and not much to do. It is a luxury that seldom occurs in the aerospace world and is actually not without its own pitfalls.
The feeling of disappointment and despair after the launch failure was quickly replaced by the ambition to try again and finally make our way half way into space. A new and improved rocket, under the name of Stratos II Plus, is scheduled to launch in October of 2015. However before any design work started the…
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We remain as committed as ever to relaunching Stratos II next October. However, it is sensible to start drawing plans what DARE will do next. There is a lot of know-how and experience that we have around in the workshop until then from senior Project Stratos crew. For this reason a DSE (Design Synthesis Exercise, a big…
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The DARE minor of this year is working on the assignment to build a liquid cooled rocket engine. The multidisciplinary team contains 12 students from Aerospace, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. Their goal is to build a liquid engine that can sustain an engine burn time of more than 10 seconds by regulating the pressure in the feed…
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On the 21st of November 2014, the Solid Six team from DARE undertook two SGM (single grain motor, a scaled-down version of a larger motor) static tests, to evaluate the performance and material characteristics of new light-weight construction materials used for the combustion chamber. The two SGM’s were “mini-me’s” of the Leonidas-2 and Leonidas-5 motors, two…
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Test Bench Refurbishment Team Dawn has been busy lately with a number of new projects. However, before any new motor can be developed, we need to have a working test facility again. A lot of equipment of our previous test setup is currently part of the Stratos II equipment. To account for this, the labscale…
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Past Sunday, October the 5th, DARE was present at the joint TU Delft stand at the ESA open day in Noordwijk. It was a great opportunity to show the general public who we are and what we work on. It was wonderful to see the enthusiasm space inspires in so many people and we got…
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The last day of the launch window is finally upon us. The whole team knows that it is now or never. For today our trajectory simulation experts have kept a close eye on the weather. It was found that the launch window would be open until 14:00. After 14:00, the wind speed would increase which…
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