Bereit zum Abheben? Einladung zur European Space Elevator Challenge EUSPEC 2024 🚀 Teams aus München, Dresden und Japan konkurrieren um das beste Climber-Modell und testen die neuste Weltraumaufzugstechnologie. DIE IDEE Die grundlegende Idee des „Weltraumaufzugs“ geht auf das Jahr 1895 zurück, als der Wissenschaftler Konstantin Ziolkowski den Bau eines Turms von der Erdoberfläche bis in […]
Heute vor 50 Jahren hob die erste deutsche Hybridrakete ab, ein Meilenstein in der Raumfahrt. Entwickelt von Studierenden der TU München, prägte sie die Zukunft. Professor Robert Schmucker reflektiert über Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft dieses wegweisenden Projekts sowie die Rolle der Studierendengruppe TUM WARR. Am 12. März 1974 startete die Barbarella-Rakete von einer Plattform in
Welcome, space enthusiasts, to the first installment of our WARR Exploration Journey series, where we delve deeper into our mission’s progress and the exciting discoveries we’re making on our journey through the cosmos. We extend our gratitude to our sponsors, whose generous and continuous support propels our work forward. Let’s embark on this fascinating exploration
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CRYOSPHERE – ROAD TO LAUNCH Over a decade ago, Project Cryosphere embarked on an ambitious endeavor to construct our most formidable rocket to date, marking a significant milestone in our 60-year history. The outcome is a behemoth of a student rocket, the EX-3. Generating an astounding thrust exceeding one ton, our aim is to soar
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WE HAVE LIFTOFF!! At the same time the long-duration hot-fire test of the Valkyrie engine took place, the Nixus team also performed the launch of one of the older Rocketry projects prototypes, the EX-1B rocket in order to validate hardware and software before the launch of the EX-4 rocket of project Nixus. This experiment was
WARR ROCKETRY MAKES HISTORY!! WE JUST MADE HISTORY 🔥 ! 10 days ago, our team successfully hot-fired our in-house designed bi-liquid Valkyrie engine for the first time, achieving a thrust of over 3000 Newtons for around 3 seconds of steady combustion. After inspecting the engine, we ramped up the burn time and conducted a long-duration
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A BRIGHT START TO A NEW SEMESTER WARR Rocketry proudly unveiled the fully integrated EX3 Rocket as Bavarian Minister President @markus.soeder , Science and Arts Minister @markusblume75 and TUM President Thomas Hofmann visited us at the start of the new semester. As we delved into the specifics of the rocket and our ambitious EX3 mission to shatter the altitude
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BAVARIAN STATE PARLIAMENT VISITS WARR!! The Bavarian State Parliament, headed by Ilse Aigner, President of the State Parliament recently visited the Department Aerospace and Geodesy (ASG) der TUM School of Engineering and Design (ED). After the welcome by the President of TUM, Prof. Dr. Thomas Hofmann, the members of the delegation met with WARR. After
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WARR IS ON ISS!! Our experiment cube of the mission ADDONISS has reached the International Space Station (ISS) yesterday and is now integrated and connected to the data transmission, which means we just received the first telemetry data from space! We are really excited that our self-assembled system with the cells is now in space.
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