NEWS
2007
October
27, 2007 - BUCHAREST
Mission 2 video available on YouTube.
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October
26, 2007 - BUCHAREST
ARCA
featured on "Magazin Aeronautic", No.10. The article is focused
on Mission2 as well as on other team achivements during the past years.
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October
24, 2007 – RM. VALCEA
Dumitru
Popescu interviewed on Spacefellowship. He is talking about ARCA`s future
plans and private suborbital activities. You can read the interview
here
and discuss this on forum.
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October
17, 2007 - RM. VALCEA
Mission3
scheduled for May 2008. Flight data and launch location not yet disclosed.
The launch will be made from the sea with the help of a large marine
platform designed at ARCA in the past year. The marine platform is under
construction.
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October
16, 2007 - BUCHAREST
ARCA
wins 3 governmental contracts of 1.6 mil Euro (2.3 mil$) to develop
a high altitude balloon for scientific platforms, a low cost unmanned
air launched suborbital vehicle and a VTOL experimental vehicle during
the National Research Program competition.
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September
28, 2007 - RM. VALCEA
Mission2
Flight pictures and data available here.
Images in short time.
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September
25, 2007 - CAPE MIDIA
SUCCESSFUL
FLIGHT!
Mission2 flight of STABILO1B vehicle was launched today at 08:30 local
time from Cape Midia Air Force Launch Site. More images and info in
short time.
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September
21, 2007 - CAPE MIDIA
Mission2
flight canceled due to bad weather. Today was extremely cloudy and the
wind exceeded 8m/s. The wind speed limit for the solar balloon is less
than 4m/s. Next launch attempt on September 25 at 08:00 local time.
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September
14, 2007 - RM. VALCEA
The
first launch day of Mission2, scheduled for September 20, was canceled
due to military maneuvers close to the launch site area. The first launch
attempt for Mission2 rescheduled for September 21 at 08:00 local time.
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September
5, 2007 - RM. VALCEA
The
first launch attempt for Mission2 will take place on September 20 at
08:00 local time, from Cape Midia - Air Force Launch Site. If the weather
will not be suitable for launch, the team will stay on the launch site
during the next 10 days waiting for good weather.
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August
20, 2007 - SUCEAVA
STABILO-1B
vehicle will transport an amateur radio equipment, as additional payload.
This equipment consist of a radio transmitter intended to be used for
testing the radio waves propagation at high altitude and is made by
a group of ham radio operators and scientists from Suceava County. The
call sign of this beacon will be YO8KGU/AM and will operate in the 2
meters amateur radio band.
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August
19, 2007 - RM.VALCEA
Mission2
will be launched between September 17-October 1 from Cape Midia - Air
Force Launch Site, depending of weather. STABILO1B, a special version
of the STABILO vehicle, designed for high altitude manned flights (above
100km), will be used as the second stage for Mission2. A new type of
high performance engine was considered. Configuration: recovery compartment
at the top - crew cabin - fuel tank - rocket engine.
The
vehicle will fly above the sea for about two hours. The cruise altitude
was set at 16.100 m-FL528 (a potential target at maximum 20.600m). The
orange color is used for easy recovery from the sea. Check this site
periodically for additional news regarding this flight.
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July
28, 2007 – RM. VALCEA
We
are deeply sorry for the accident that happened at Scaled during an
oxidizer flow test, two days ago. Our thoughts are going to the team
members of Scaled, former Ansari X Prize Competitor and winner of this
competition.
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July
28, 2007 – RM. VALCEA
Mission2
flight of the STABILO 1B vehicle was rescheduled for September 2007.
More in short time.
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May
22-25 – SIBIU - The European Capital of Culture
The
event “Conrad Haas-Sibiu’s pioneer of Astronautics”,
gathered a series of national and foreign specialists in the field of
astronautics. Among them Air Force G-ral. Florin Zaganescu, author of
a series of great books published in the past decades and Prof. Ioan
Radu, one of the world pioneers in building and launching past centuries
rocket replicas. He was a rocket models world champion establishing
a series of world records. Dumitru Popescu presented the latest developments
at ARCA.
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May
21, 2007 – RM. VALCEA
ARCA
President, Dumitru Popescu will participate to the conference “Conrad
Haas-Sibiu’s pioneer of Astronautics”. The event will
take place in Sibiu - The European Capital of Culture - May 22-25. Popescu
will speak Thursday at 14:00 GMT about the influence of the Austrian-Romanian
rocket pioneer in modern astronautics.
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March
26, 2007 - SUCEAVA
During
the Mission2 flight of the STABILO-1B vehicle, the solar balloon will
carry an amateur radio equipment, as additional payload. This equipment
consist of a radio transmitter intended to be used for testing the radio
waves propagation at high altitude and is made by a group of ham radio
operators and scientists from Suceava County. The call sign of this
beacon will be YO8KGU/AM and will operate in the 2 meters amateur radio
band.
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March
26, 2007 - RM. VALCEA
This
month our team was relocated in a new build facility. This lead to delays
for the scheduled Mission 2 flight. The rescheduled flight will be announced
soon.
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February
19, 2007 - BUCHAREST
Mission1
live video (7.5Mb) available for download.
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February
19, 2007 - RM.VALCEA
STABILO
flight program is now available (550kb-pdf)
“The STABILO program was initiated at the end of 2005 and
it will end in 2009. Basicaly, we will have two flights on each year.
Right now we see for the STABILO system three main objectives:
- to teach us how to develop a reliable space tourism system
- to help EU not to loose contact with US advances on manned suborbital
flight (Let's be honest: Europe is once again far behind US on manned
spaceflight)
- to brake records, especially altitude records...I will say more on
this after the following flight." - Dumitru Popescu,
ARCA President
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February
9, 2007 – RM.VALCEA
· The assembly process of the STABILO-1B spaceship for the Mission2
flight, is almost completed. The carrier balloon, five times bigger
than the one used on Mission1 flight, will enter into fabrication at
the middle of February. The new flight procedures will involve, beside
the carrier balloon, two smaller balloons. In this situation we estimate
a true air show.
· ARCA is building a new assembly hangar for the STABILO vehicle.
The facility will be operational at the end of February and it will
be equipped with environmental control.
· More than 90 journalists announced their intention to participate
at Mission2 flight. We estimate to break the previous record of 90 journalists
at Demonstrator2B flight in September 2004.
· At the end of February ARCA will publish a document regarding
the STABILO flight program that will end in 2009.
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January
15, 2007 – RM.VALCEA
The
Mission2 flight was scheduled for March 2007. More data about this flight:
Flight: Mission 2
Program: STABILO - The European Private Manned Space
Program
Programmed date: March 2007
Flight category: unmanned
Vehicle configuration:
Complete first stage (carrier balloon) + complete STABILO-1B vehicle
Objectives:
1. In flight test of the complete first stage (the carrier balloon)
+ the complete STABILO-1B vehicle during the climbing sequence and
at the operational launch altitude of +20.000m
2. In flight test of the reentry procedures and recovery hardware: the
drogue tri sonic parachute, main and reserve parachutes.
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