On 17.7.2019 it was time for the maiden flight of the STR rocket “Asimov”. A first flight is always something exciting, you can never be sure that everything will go well. This time it didn’t Preperation Three days before, on … Continued
An ambitious project where the TU Wien Space Team played an integral part has succeeded. Cylindrical probes were released from space and glided back to earth unharmed.
This article will serve as a quick overview of our record attempt at the BALLS event in Nevada. First things first: we are very proud of what we have managed to achieve. Not only was it an organizational challenge for … Continued
The Space Team at TU Wien is launching an ambitious project together with the University of Würzburg. Measurement devices are going to be ejected from a rocket and will fall to Earth without a parachute.
You may have heard the phrase “It’s not rocket science!” before, which implies that a certain topic is not difficult to understand. As it turns out, in theory, building rockets is a lot easier than you might think and can … Continued
The production of “The Hound” is continuing! Andreas Bauernfeind was invited by one of our new sponsors, the company Wolfgang Nowotny Sondermaschinenbau GmbH, in order to discuss more production details. We would like to reach out our sincere gratitude for the … Continued
In cooperation with the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Application Oriented Coating Development at TU Wien (http://hardcoatings.tuwien.ac.at/) and Project Noreia (http://www.project-noreia.at/), the Space Team has coated a prototype of the second stage fincan of The Hound. With the only 5µm thick titanium nitrid based coating, the … Continued
We proudly announce a new cooperation with a team of the University of Würzburg: Project Daedalus! Together we are participating in the REXUS 23/24 – Project of the REXUS/BEXUS programme. The project covers the deployment of several orbital gliders at an altitude of … Continued
Our team in France is working hard on the last few preparations and tests for the competition. The mechanical tests have already been passed, the only thing missing are the electronical tests and the “vol simulé”, which is a simulated … Continued
The STR-06 (Space Team Rocket-06) team is on their way to the C’Space rocket competition in Tarbes, France! For this competition it is not permitted to have the rocket separate with a pyrotechnical separation mechanism, so the STR-06 team developed … Continued