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Video journal entry 4
March 11, 2010 - Ramnicu Valcea

Paul Radut and Dumitru Popescu about Helen 2 fuel tank valves.

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Video journal entry 3
March 10, 2010 - Bucharest

Dumitru Popescu at US Embassy.

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Video journal entry 2
March 9, 2010 - Ramnicu Valcea

Modifying check valves for rocket engine.

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Video journal entry 1
March 8, 2010 - Ramnicu Valcea

Simona Popescu, ARCA PR, about video journal.

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Coanda Anniversary
February 27, 2010 - Bucharest

At the aeronautical college Henri Coanda from Bucharest were opened a series of celebrations on the 100th anniversary of testing the world's first jet airplane, invented by the romanian Henri Coanda. On this occasion, our colleague Sorin Dinea presented the Coanda 1910 plane the lenticular aerodine and the ARCA 3 Mission. The nearly 200 attending students were impressed by our projects. For more details, starting nex week, you can access the site: www.jet100.com

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Video series
February 17, 2010 - Ramnicu Valcea

In short time, ARCA will begin to publish a daily video with its activities

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Space Tourists
January 21-31, 2010 - UTAH

This year's winner of the Sundance World Cinema Documentary prize for Directing is Christian Frei's SPACE TOURISTS «For its masterful and poetic approach to a complex story of history, humanity and fantasy - taking place between earth and space…» Protagonists: Anouseh Ansari (space tourist) and Dumitru Popescu (ARCA team leader)

http://www.space-tourists-film.com

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Google Lunar X Prize Summit - Final Day
February 4, 2010 - LOS ANGELES

The Google Lunar X Prize summit held at NASA JPL in Pasadena, California ended on February 3, 2010. During the Summit the teams discussed about regulation, shared own experience and learned from previous NASA planetary missions. Also, the teams were informed about the latest NASA's projects of planetary exploration, for the years to come. Pictures from the Summit.

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Google Lunar X Prize Day one summit
February 1, 2010 - BUCHAREST

The first day at NASA's JPL during the Google Lunar X Prize Summit. The X Prize teams learned about NASA's planetary missions from the people that designed and operated the spacecrafts. Photo: William Pomerantz, Director of Space Prizes at XPF, Dumitru Popescu, ARCA Team Leader and Anousheh Ansari,sponsor of the Ansari X Prize and space tourist. Bellow: the ATHLETE Lunar Rover.

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Google Lunar X Prize Team Summit
January 29, 2010 - BUCHAREST

ARCA Team will participate at the Google Lunar X Prize Team Summit, at NASA - Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in Pasadena, on February 1-2, 2010.

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ONE MORE STEP
January 18, 2010 - RAMNICU – VALCEA

ARCA completed the general launch procedures for the Helen 2 rocket, as the Mission 4 will be launched in April 2010.

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HELEN 2
January 04, 2010 - RAMNICU - VALCEA

On November 14th, 2009 ARCA attempted to launch the Helen rocket from the Black Sea.
The launch didn't take place because the inflation arms twisted around the balloon. This happened due to the curents from the sea and some inappropriate procedures for folding the arms during the inflation process sea.
The launch was postponed to April 2010, and will be executed from a new location to be disclosed at a later date. The rocket will be named Helen 2 and the mission will be named Mission 4.
Helen 2 is an upgraded version of Helen. The goal is to implement more technical solutions that will later be used for the Haas rocket on its flight towards the Moon, within the Google Lunar X Prize competition.
The main difference between Helen and Helen 2 is the usage of spherical – instead of cylindrical - fuel tanks , a solution that is also implemented on Haas.
This option will increase the aerodynamic drag, which will allow for the launch altitude to be 16,000 m, instead of 14,000 m as planned for Mission 3.

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