In thrust we trust
One of our torch igniters got mentioned by everyday astronaut (one of the mayor channels about space related news). They did nor ask for permission, but hey… we are still proud of it. Thanks Max for pointing me to the clip.
The original clip is here on our YT channel:
Last week team HELVETIA/ASTREA launched it’s rocket at the Spaceport America Cup 2022 in New Mexico. It got to an altitude fg 10’300 meters (33’800 feet) Congratulation and thanks that I can be part of that journey!
The rocket is screaming (due to combustion instabilities… we knew about that. But hey, it survived!).
This reminds to the Tie Fighter from the Start Wars movies 😁
We added a new page in our products section: Cold Gas Thrusters. There is the extremely fast 200 mN thruster and the 20 N thruster which is currently under development.
To demonstrate the extreme fast actuation time we let the thruster play Johann Strauss’ “Blue Danube” (Blaue Donau) based on the opening music of Space odyssey 2001. Depending on the played tone it opens up to 2000 times a second fed by 20 bar Nitrogen. The solenoid is driven by a in-house developed microcontroller board.
Link to the video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wip7s4FlyOo
Look what Team DAEDALUS achieved! Their hybrid rocket motor, based on Nitrous Oxide/Paraffin, is now a flight worthy marvel of engineering. It will be flown this summer as a part of the PICCARD rocket. I am (again) proud to be part of that story. See also the other related posts
We are attending the 2020+1 Space Propulsion Conference (Along with the CySat21 conference which is happening at the same time unfortunately). https://spacepropulsion2020.com
The 1st European executive event dedicated to cybersecurity for the space industry (Online due to CORONA) will happen from 17. March 20221 to 21. March.
Website: https://cysat.eu/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/cys…
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CYSAT21
The ARIS IRIDE team finished it’s test campaign with a great success. Watch the amazing video they created! I am proud to be part of that story. Together with the predecessor team RHEA they finished the construction of the test infrastructure, they also designed, build and tested a 5 kN rocket hybrid engine. The new team DAEDALUS will now design flight worthy hardware for ARIS’ PICCARD rocket aimed for the Spaceport America Cup 2021.
Great work of the ARIS team! Congratulation! I am proud to be part of that journey! 🚀🚀 (Embedded via LinkedIN, original link)
Small 3D-printed rocket engine injector finished. Nothing special so far, except it’s not SLM printed… it’s printed in a FDM process using BASF’s new 316L filament with debinding and sintering afterwards. Details are not as good as in SLM but it’s way cheaper! The injector works with N2O/Ethane and is designated for a 600N satellite thruster currently under development @IBB.ch
Info’s about this promising new process can be found at BASF.
