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ARCA - Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association

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posted on May, 6 2010 @ 05:38 AM
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Hello, everyone!
I just found this website and I thought it was interesting, since I love this stuff

I did a search and I haven`t seen it posted before.


Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association (ARCA) is a non-governmental organization, that promotes innovative aerospace projects located in Valcea County.

ARCA joined the Ansari X Prize Competition in 2002 and since then it became one of the leading teams. ARCA developed two main projects: the Demonstrator rockets and STABILO. Demonstrator 2B rocket, equipped with world first composite materials reusable monopropellant engine ever to fly, was successfully launched on September 9, 2004 from the Cape Midia Air Force Launch Site on the Black Sea shore. STABILO, a two stages manned suborbital air launched vehicle completed three flights until now. The first stage is world largest Solar Montgolfier balloon and the second stage is a rocket powered manned spaceship. First low altitude flights of Stabilo were completed in 2006. In the same year, Mission1 was completed at an altitude of 14700m. In 2007 Stabilo’s Mission2 was launched at an altitude of 12000m above the Black Sea. The team received flight data via a communication satellite. The landing point was located at 30km (16.2miles) from the launch site. The Navy recovered the vehicle, the recovery ship being guided from ARCA’s Command Center.



Here are the latest entries: www.arcaspace.ro...
The programs: www.arcaspace.ro...
The flights: www.arcaspace.ro...

And I found them on Google Lunar X Prize too: www.googlelunarxprize.org...


The Google Lunar X PRIZE is a $30 million international competition to safely land a robot on the surface of the Moon, travel 500 meters over the lunar surface, and send images and data back to the Earth.

Teams must be at least 90% privately funded and must be registered to compete by December 31, 2010. The first team to land on the Moon and complete the mission objectives will be awarded $20 million; the full first prize is available until December 31, 2012. After that date, the first prize will drop to $15 million. The second team to do so will be awarded $5 million. Another $5 million will awarded in bonus prizes. The final deadline for winning the prize is December 31, 2014.


ARCA team: www.googlelunarxprize.org...

And the romanian website of the Google Lunar X Prize: www.arcalunar.com... I didn`t find it in english sadly. (you can use google translate or something)

Enjoy!


[edit on 6/5/10 by sandri_90]



posted on May, 6 2010 @ 09:14 AM
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My wife is Romanian. I'll get her to read it to me when we both find the time and I'll post an overview or any important finds.



posted on May, 6 2010 @ 10:45 AM
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And here it is ELE lunar spaceprobe:

[atsimg]http://files.abovetopsecret.com/images/member/61a32a3c0bae.jpg[/atsimg]

The European Lunar Explorer - ELE is a 3 stages space probe able to fly from the Earth's low orbit to the Moon surface and to send scientific data back to Earth. ELE will be placed into orbit by the HAAS launcher.

Technical data: www.arcaspace.ro...



posted on May, 6 2010 @ 12:58 PM
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That is very interesting.

I checked out the web site but could find nothing on why they would utilize a mono-propellent. Unless there is an amazing proprietary secret, I would not think that would be a benefit compared to other propellents.

Still, it looks as though they have a coherent plan of development.




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