HYBRID Progress Report Tobias Knop, Stefan Powell, Ralph Huijsman, Rob Hermsen, Jeroen Wink, Robert Werner, Johnnes Ehlen, Felix Lindemann, Kapeel Samarawickrama. A BRIEF HISTORY Project DAWN was started by a group of students from the TU Delft in 2010. The initial objective was to investigate the concepts of a hybrid propulsion system. For this…
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Today at 14:22, Stratos II was brought one step closer to its goal of 50km when the latest test rocket, the Stratos concept launcher, left the launcher tower at ASK ‘t Harde and flew to an altitude of 1 km. The separation of the nosecone occurred near apogee and roughly four seconds later, the parachute…
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Traditionally every mission to space has a mission patch: a unique badge that is representative of the mission. Such a badge can function as a logo of the mission and is usually worn on team clothing. Stratos II can of course not stay behind in that respect. Therefore we designed a patch, which every team…
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Today the March edition of the Leonardo Times was released. This is the Journal of the Society of Aerospace Engineering Students ‘Leonardo da Vinci’. In this edition an article written by Stratos project members is published about Stratos II. It elaborates on the design of the solid propulsion, hybrid propulsion, capsule and electronics. To read…
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Last Tuesday Project DAWN, the hybrid motor group of project Stratos II, had a successful test motor injector test on the former architecture field. The test was conducted to prove the injector concept for the test motor, the feed system setup in general and to observe the nitrous oxide flow behavior. During the test the…
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Today an article about the upcoming Stratos launch anniversary celebration came out in the Delta. The article features information about the rocket itself, as well as the lecture that will be given tonight by Stratos II project leader Frank Engelen, as part of the celebration. You can read the article here. And of course you…
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On the 17th of March we broke the European altitude record for sounding rockets. Today we are still record holders. To celebrate the second anniversary of this event we will organize a lecture on the 17th of March about Stratos I and how we intend to secure our position as lead rocket building society with…
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Bryan, Hein, Frank Recently, three graduating members of the Stratos team were assigned to the graduation room 9.03 of the Aerospace Engineering faculty. All three are graduating on Stratos-related projects, so this will allow them to devote more time to the project and therefore speed it up. Bryan is graduating on “Real-time attitude and position determination system…
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Early on in project DAWN, we decided that many tests would have to be conducted to ensure that we can prove that a hybrid motor is a viable concept for Stratos II. To do this, we needed a test bed with a fast turnaround time. While we already had a test motor, it had to…
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In December 2010, it was announced by the Stratos II project team that the deadline for the proof-of-concept for the two competing propulsion teams (Solid and Hybrid) will be in June. By the June launch day, the teams should demonstrate their capability of producing a propulsion system that could take Stratos II to its goal…
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