On Tuesday afternoon, DARE was given a place on the wall of fame of the faculty of Aerospace Engineering for its accomplishment with the Stratos project. Disguised as a post flight meeting, the Stratos team members were invited to the faculty, where they found out that the “post flight meeting” was actually a celebration for…
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The Stratos launch has been rescheduled to Saturday, somewhere late in the morning or early afternoon, due to the fact that there are better conditions tomorrow for the launch. The exact launch time will be decided at 9:00. The ignition system test that was done this morning was succesfull. The final preparations of the rocket…
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The Stratos rocket is now set to launch today at 14:00. A decision to start launch procedures will be made at 12:00, the countdown will then start at 13:00. At this moment some final tests of the launch system are being performed and the electronics are being prepared for launch. When this is completed the…
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Late this morning Esrange finally saw the first rocket launch of the campaign: at 11:08 the REXUS 6 left its tower with a set of student experiments onboard. The closest place where the public could see the launch was on Radar Hill, a nearby hill named for the radar equipment present there. Standing there on same…
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The first possible launch opportunity to launch the Stratos rocket is this Friday afternoon, depending on the weather here at Esrange and the Rexus launches. The second balloon of the balloon campaign was launched yesterday evening, meaning that the balloon campaign has now finished. The Rexus 6 is set to launch on Thursday and then…
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After a two day journey the Stratos crew arrived at Esrange. The journey was almost entirely by train and led via Copenhagen, Stockholm and Boden to Kiruna. The part from Kiruna to Esrange was an hour trip by van over snowy roads. After arrival by CityNightLine early in Copenhagen in the morning, here was time…
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Today the Stratos team will depart by train for a today journey that will lead them to the launch facility at Esrange. The train trip will lead through Germany, Denmark and through entire Sweden. This trip will take two days and the expected date of arrival is 2 March. Meanwhile, the first part of the…
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On February the 18th Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering presented the Stratos rocket which is going to break the European altitude record for amateur rockets when it is launched at Esrange Spaceport in North-Sweden coming March. The rocket was unveiled by the Dean of the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of Delft University of Technology after the…
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Today Dutch Space signed the presenting sponsor contract for Stratos, making Dutch Space the main sponsor of project Stratos. Thanks to the commitment of Dutch Space to support innovation the Stratos team will be able to launch at Esrange coming March. With this sponsorship we hope to interest youth and students in the field of…
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