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49th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference | 2013

Sorbitol-Based Hybrid Fuel Studies with Nitrous Oxide for the Stratos II Sounding Rocket

Tobias Knop; B.T.C. Zandbergen; A. Cervone; Ralph Huijsman; Stefan Powell; Robert Werner; Johannes Ehlen; Felix Lindemann; Jeroen Wink; Christoph Becker; Kapeel Samarawickrama

The low regression rate of plastic hybrid rocket fuels drives combustion chamber designs towards long and slender single-port options or multi-port geometries. Both options result in mass and geometry penalties for rocket applications with increasing system impulse, while maintaining short burn times. In order to make hybrid motors with single-port fuel grain geometries a viable option to power sounding rockets such as Delft Aerospace Rocket Engineering’s flagship project Stratos II, novel fuel combinations are investigated using an engineering approach. Eleven tests on sorbitol-based fuels were performed on a 1,000 Ns lab scale motor and evaluated to assess the effect of fuel additives such as paraffin wax and aluminum micro particles as well as the influence of swirl injection on specific impulse, fuel density, average regression rate and oxidizer-to-fuel ratio. Furthermore production, operations and safety aspects are addressed. A mixture of 80% sorbitol, 10% paraffin wax and 10% aluminum micro particles by mass in combination with a 15◦ swirl injection angle is found to meet the fuel requirements to power Stratos II.


Acta Astronautica | 2013

Formation flying within a constellation of nano-satellites: The QB50 mission

Eberhard Gill; Prem Sundaramoorthy; J. Bouwmeester; B.T.C. Zandbergen; R. Reinhard


IWSCFF 2010: 6th International Workshop on Satellite Constellation and Formation Flying, Taipei, Taiwan, 1-3 November 2010 | 2010

Formation flying within a constellation of nano-satellites the QB50 mission

Eberhard Gill; Prem Sundaramoorthy; J. Bouwmeester; B.T.C. Zandbergen; R. Reinhard


51st AIAA/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference | 2015

Failure Mode Investigation of a Sorbitol-based Hybrid Rocket Flight Motor for the Stratos II Sounding Rocket

Tobias Knop; Jeroen Wink; Ralph Huijsman; Robert Werner; Johannes Ehlen; Stefan Powell; B.T.C. Zandbergen; A. Cervone


63rd International Astronautical Congress 2012, IAC 2012, Naples, Italy, 1-5 October 2012, 7753-7760 | 2012

Application of an advanced micro-propulsion system to the delffi formation-flying demonstration within the qb50 mission

A. Cervone; B.T.C. Zandbergen; J. Guo; E. Gill; W.P.W. Wieling; F.T. Nardini; C.A.H. Schuurbiers


Proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference on Systems Engineering Research: CSER 2009, 20-23 April 2009, Loughborough University, UK | 2009

Development of a System Level Tool for Conceptual Design of Small Satellites

Christina L.O. Aas; B.T.C. Zandbergen; Rob J. Hamann; Eberhard Gill


Ceas Space Journal | 2017

Green micro-resistojet research at Delft University of Technology: new options for Cubesat propulsion

A. Cervone; B.T.C. Zandbergen; Daduí C. Guerrieri; M. de Athayde Costa e Silva; I. Krusharev; H.W. van Zeijl


Acta Astronautica | 2015

Conceptual design of a low-pressure micro-resistojet based on a sublimating solid propellant

A. Cervone; Alexandru Mancas; B.T.C. Zandbergen


Space propulsion | 2016

Heater Chip with Different Microchannels Geometries for a Low Pressure Free Molecular Micro-Resistojet

D. Cordeiro Guerrieri; M. de Athayde Costa e Silva; B.T.C. Zandbergen; A. Cervone


5th CEAS air and space conference | 2016

Green micro-resistojet research at Delft University of Technology: the new frontiers of Cubesat propulsion

Angelo Cervone; B.T.C. Zandbergen; D. Cordeiro Guerrieri; Marsil A.C. Silva; H.W. van Zeijl

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A. Cervone

Delft University of Technology

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Angelo Cervone

Delft University of Technology

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D. Cordeiro Guerrieri

Delft University of Technology

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Eberhard Gill

Delft University of Technology

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H.W. van Zeijl

Delft University of Technology

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J. Bouwmeester

Delft University of Technology

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Marsil A.C. Silva

Delft University of Technology

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Prem Sundaramoorthy

Delft University of Technology

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R. Reinhard

Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics

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