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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Last week an update story of the Stratos II team appeared in the Leonardo Times magazine published by the VSV Leonardo da Vinci, the study-society of the Aerospace Faculty of the TU Delft. The four paged article is written, by team member Maarten Haneveer, to bring all students of the Aerospace Faculty again up to…
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It has been a busy few weeks; The Stratos II propulsion team is working flat out getting ready for a sequence of systems tests and finally a full scale motor test of the Aurora motor at TNO in late April. Production of major parts such as a ¼ size tank for the second tank test…
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On Friday the 1st of March the Hybrid team performed a test of their recently produced tank at Advanced Lightweight Engineering in Delft. The aluminium tank was a shortened version of the one that will be produced for the eventual engine. However, although this test tank is only approximately 1.5m in length compared to the 4m…
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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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Recently Stratos and DARE has been present at several events. A few of those are described here. Precisiebeurs On the 28th and 29th of November a small delegation consisting of the Head of Operations, Technical Manager and the Head of Public Relations represented Project Stratos on the yearly Precisie Beurs (Precision Fair) in Veldhoven. The precision…
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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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Last Saturday, members of DARE’s liquid propulsion team have successfully conducted a first series of tests of a liquid fuel rocket engine. Between 1PM and 2PM, two so called hot fire tests were performed of the DEIMOS rocket engine. The DEIMOS rocket engine is fueled using liquid ethane and liquid nitrous oxide. This propellant combination…
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Michael Eiche started his studies at the faculty of Aerospace Engineering in the year 2009, the same year he joined the Dream team Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering (DARE). His enthusiasm for rocketry and his will to go the extra mile to manage a team eventually led to the position of President of DARE in the…
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