Ready for lift-off? Join us at the European Space Elevator Challenge EUSPEC 2024 🚀 Teams from Munich, Dresden and Japan compete for the best climber model, testing the space elevator technology. THE IDEA The fundamental idea of the “space elevator” goes back to 1895, when the scientist Konstantin Tsiolkovsky considered building a tower from the […]
50 years ago today, Germany’s first hybrid rocket took off, a milestone in space technologies. Developed by students at the Technical University of Munich, it shaped the future. Professor Robert Schmucker reflects on the past, present and future of this pioneering project and the role of the TUM WARR student group. On 12. March 1974,
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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