Author Topic: ARCA Stabilo News (Read 24330 times)

bad_astra · « **on:** 12/01/2006 10:07 pm »

ARCA has picked up a new sponsor for the Stabilo tests: ONSTRUCTIM SA Company.

The test scheduled for 11-22 was rescheduled due to wind conditions. It was rescheduled to take place between the 28th and the 4th of December so hopefully there will be some news on this soon.

bad_astra · « **Reply #1 on:** 12/01/2006 10:08 pm »

http://www.arcaspace.ro/imagini/gallery/mari/a11prez_system.jpg

bad_astra · « **Reply #2 on:** 12/05/2006 01:28 am »

Test was successful, capsule was recovered.

bad_astra · « **Reply #3 on:** 01/16/2007 05:25 pm »

Mission 1 apparently slated for March
Profile:
Mission1 Unmanned 22000m Carrier balloon + Complete ship No Engine Start

Taken from http://www.arcaspace.ro/en/home.htm:

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 trisonic parachute, main and reserve parachutes.

I wish them success. If they use the same solar baloon to be used on the manned flights, this should be the largest balloon of it's kind, ever.

bad_astra · « **Reply #4 on:** 03/28/2007 04:44 pm »

delayed

bad_astra · « **Reply #5 on:** 08/20/2007 06:17 pm »

September 17-October 1 is latest date for Mission 2. The webpage is showing a decidely different looking Stabilo called "Stabilo 1b". The web page still shows the design for the Stabilo 1, so hopefully there will be more updates soon. The original version is essentially a small escape shere dropped from a LES which itself is lifted to altitude by a solar-montgolfier balloon. The new version seems to have the engine pass through the passenger housing.

bad_astra · « **Reply #6 on:** 09/22/2007 05:17 pm »

Wind delay, pushed back till Sept 25

meiza · « **Reply #7 on:** 09/22/2007 05:26 pm »

They finally realized what Goddard did 70 years ago, that it doesn't add any stability whether the nozzle is at the top or bottom.

bad_astra · « **Reply #8 on:** 09/22/2007 08:20 pm »

yeah. looks like they've changed the drawings to show it better. Looks like the nosecone probably houses the cabin-sphere's parachute. I guess we'll have a better idea after the test.

bad_astra · « **Reply #9 on:** 09/26/2007 06:12 am »

mission 2 success:
http://www.arcaspace.ro/imagini/gallery/mari/mission2.jpg
Looks like the entire vehicle landed under chutes, apparently there was no separation. No details yet.

paygar · « **Reply #10 on:** 10/17/2007 03:01 pm »

News from Arca

http://www.arcaspace.ro/en/home.htm

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.

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.

bad_astra · « **Reply #11 on:** 04/10/2008 12:33 am »

http://www.arcaspace.ro/suborbital/en/stabilo.htm
It looks like the page has been updated with information on the differences between the 1 and 1b variants.

Mission 3 now set for June 2008. Balloon + 1B. I think initially this was to be manned. I don't know if it still is, or not.

patmamu · « **Reply #12 on:** 06/19/2009 04:04 pm »

NASA's MLAS, same principle and shape as ARCA's STABILO

ARCA is going to be watching the NASA MLAS test this June because of the many similarities between the systems. The full article can be found here:

http://www.googlelunarxprize.org/lunar/teams/arca/blog/nasas-mlas-same-principle-and-shape-as-arcas-stabilo

The article also has some new pictures of Stabilo and MLAS.

Side note, all but the last weblink in the previous posts have gone down.

bad_astra · « **Reply #13 on:** 09/14/2009 05:06 pm »

http://spacefellowship.com/2009/09/12/part-two-dumitru-popescu-builds-his-dream-rocket/

Interview with the founder of ARCA. Since they plan a suborbital rockoon launch next month, seems relevant.

bad_astra · « **Reply #14 on:** 11/04/2009 07:47 pm »

http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/11/exclusive_romanias_lunar_ballo.html

Interview was posted today, but the carrier ship left last week. I don't know if they have test launched, scrubbed, or are still boating.

bad_astra · « **Reply #15 on:** 11/13/2009 10:11 pm »

Launch is scheduled for Nov 14

DiggyCoxwell · « **Reply #16 on:** 11/17/2009 09:30 pm »

Quote from: bad_astra on 11/04/2009 07:47 pm

http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/11/exclusive_romanias_lunar_ballo.html

Interview was posted today, but the carrier ship left last week. I don't know if they have test launched, scrubbed, or are still boating.

They've postponed their launch attempt due to some balloon problems.
Latest I have from the ARCA website is that they are leaving the Black Sea launch zone and returning to port..

bad_astra · « **Reply #17 on:** 11/18/2009 03:18 pm »

I know they seem to favor the oddball over the tried-and-true every time, but throwing the solar montgolfier into this seems counterproductive.

If they'd used clusters of weather balloons like John Powell's group, they could have made their attempt, most likely. Obviously this is much more expensive.

I've inflated large solar balloons before (abviously not as big as that world's biggest thing they have on their hands), and it's an incredible hassle. I can't imagine trying it on ship in choppy water. As soon as enough sea spray hit the envelope the mission was over.

Danderman · « **Reply #18 on:** 11/18/2009 03:22 pm »

What we know about this group is that they don't fly very much.

Zond · « **Reply #19 on:** 07/24/2010 01:30 pm »

Arca is planning another launch attemp of the Helen 2 rocket: http://www.arcaspace.ro/