AE Highlights

Stratos

The Stratos project is the most extreme short-term project by DARE. The rocket will travel at almost twice the speed of sound to an altitude in excess of more than 15 kilometres! They are aiming to launch the rocket in end January / begin February at Esrange in Sweden.
The Stratos rocket will consist of two stages. First, there is an expendable drop-off booster which will propel the rocket close to the speed of sound. The booster will de-attach after burnout and the main stage of about 15 kNs will start. After some coast time, the rocket will reach its apogee of about 15 kilometres. A large part of the rocket will not be recovered, but all the valuable data, electronics and payload experiments will be jettonised and safely landed by parachute. The flight computers will also have a wireless data downlink for telemetry, ensuring complete evaluation of the flight, even if the electronics capsule is not found.

More information: www.dare.lr.tudelft.nl

Delfi-C3
Delfi-C³ is the first in a series of Delft satellites. Delfi-C³ is a programme in which some 30 students from various TU Delft faculties and a school for higher vocational education are cooperating. Collaboration with commerce also makes it a unique experiment; three companies are working on three of the project’s experiments. Further information...
Films: 'Launch Delfi-C3' in NOS jounaal and
'First signals from Delfi-C3 in space', Groundstation TU Delft
Contact: Ir. Rob Hamann, projectleader Delfi-C3, 015 27 82079, R.J.Hamann@TUDelft.NL

DELcraFTworks
A team of young researchers which, under the direction of an experienced project leader, will spend four years paving the way for the design of a CleanEra (CleanEra stands for Cost-effective Low Emissions And Noise Efficient Regional Aircraft).
Further information...
Contact: Projectleader, +31 15 27 89008, LR-CleanEra@tudelft.nl

Superbus
The Superbus concept is a concept for public transport that uses high speed, (150 – 250 km/h) road driven vehicles. The vehicles drive at high speed on dedicated infrastructure, the so-called Super tracks. The vehicles drive at normal speeds on existing roads. The basic idea is to offer comfortable, demand driven, point-to-point transport that is able to compete with cars and high speed trains. Further information...
Contact: Mw. N.O. Saaneh, 015 278 5176, N.O.Saaneh@tudelft.nl

DelFLY 
DelFLY is a Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) that attempts to somewhat imitate the flight of insects and birds. With the use of two sets of flapping wings DelFly is able to maintain itself in the air and additionally propels itself in a slow stable forward flight. The DelFly is not only capable of performing a straight and horizontal flight, but it can also transform to a very slow, hovering flight. Further information...
Contact: 0031(0)15 278 37 07, microuav@gmail.com

Nuna 4
On 26 October 2007 and for the fourth year in a row, the Nuon Solar Team was again crowned the winner of the World Solar Challenge. The twelve TU Delft students completed the 3000 km through the Australian outback in 33 hours and 17 minutes in their self-built Nuna 4.
Further information...
Contact: Nuon Solar Team, Tine Lavrysen,+61 (0) 432 512 760, e-mail: pers@nuonsolarteam.com