Designing an electrical-mechanical interface In my previous blogpost I briefly touched upon the electronics that are in the works for our next flagship rocket Stratos III. Stratos III will feature multiple electronic systems made by the electronics department, but of course oftentimes multiple departments work together to design, realize and test a subsystem. So aside…
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Engineering is about inspiration, problem solving and building great things. Hi, my name is Amitabh Yadav. I started my masters study in Computer Engineering in September 2017 and I am an electronics engineer at DARE since November 2017. Joining DARE was an utmost agenda for me as soon as I came to Delft. This is…
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My name is Jun and I recently finished my BSc in Electrical Engineering. I joined project Stratos doing Electronics full-time this academic year and in these blogs, I will be writing about my activities in the Electronics department. During my third year I took the Spaceflight minor; this minor really sparked my interest for the…
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Hi everyone! My name is Dilan Gecmen and I am a second year master student Applied Mathematics. Besides my studies, I am the Operations Manager at Project Stratos III. Next to being the Operations Manager, I am also a simulations engineer. I will tell you a bit about the history of Stratos to give you…
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Hey, My name in Daan Kolthof, I am a member of the electronics team within the dreamteam Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering (DARE). Currently, I am studying the master Computer Science at the EWI faculty at the TU Delft. The reason I am also a member of the DARE is that, by being a DARE member,…
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A few weeks ago, we, three third-year computer science students (Alexander Halfweeg, Tycho van Heems  and  Jael Lopez), joined the Advanced control team in DARE. We will be working on a new version of the ground software for actively stabilised rockets. The ground software needs a GUI and it also needs to be able to…
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In the last blog post, we discussed the update of three of the four teams working on the Aether project. In this post, we would like to update you on the remaining teams:  the Solid Propulsion Team and the Structures & Recovery Team. ASIMOV Project: In the beginning of 2016, a few months after the…
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Last week we went to Germany with a group of 7 Stratos III members to visit our previous team manager Felix, meet up with another student rocketry team Warr and visit our sponsors MT Aerospace and Winkelmann. Breakdance battle   After an early morning of driving, we first arrived at the Sinsheim Museum on our…
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It is the heart of every single test, actuation or launch within DARE. Our compact RIO. This device, which was sponsored to us by National Instruments, helps us to control, check and measure everything that we need to know from the system at hand; And it is in need of an upgrade. The minor of…
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A few days back I promised to tell a bit more about the wire-cutter test. To give a bit of background: The recovery of Stratos III makes use of a two-stage parachute system. First, a drogue chute is deployed. Afterwards, the main chute is released. The wires of the drogue chute need to be cut…
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