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🚀 Join the student association for everything space Technical University of Munich this semester! Meet our teams at our Kick-Offs and learn more about our awesome projects. If you don’t know where to start, come to our general Kick Off on Wednesday 23.10. 6pm at Boltzmannstr. 15, Tentomax Lecture Hall. And for everyone just starting out: join our model rocket competition! -> Kick Off 04.11. 23.10. 🪐 WARR Kick-Off @ Tentomax Garching 24.10. 🛰️ WARR Move @ Tentomax Garching 28.10. 🤖 WARR Space Robotics @ StudiTUM Garching 29.10. 🔬 WARR Space Labs @ StudiTUM Garching           🎃 Halloween break 04.11. 🚀 Model Rocketry Competition @ StudiTUM Garching 06.11. 🪐 WARR Kick-Off @ City Centre Campus 07.11. 🚀 WARR Rocketry @ StudiTUM Garching More info at warr.de/kickoff

After months of hard work and extensive preparations, WARR MOVE took to the skies once again. On Wednesday, October 2nd 2024, our MOVE-Up team marked the rewarding start of a series of stratospheric balloon missions, achieving a remarkable milestone with the first launch. Thanks to a successful recovery of the payload, we were able to gather critical data for our MOVE-III satellite mission. The payload, a golden gondola of 2.5 kg, carried in-house developed subsystems to an altitude of around 30 km. Among other systems, we tested the performance of our battery boards and COM system, paving the way for future MOVE-Up missions. The gondola, which landed with the help of a parachute, was spotted in an unusually tall tree the same evening and was finally recovered by a professional tree-climber on the following Saturday. It now resides safely as a trophy in the MOVE Base. Special thanks to all members of the Design and Integration, Ground Integration, PR, Launch, and Recovery teams, as well as our two project leaders, Jakob and Jakob, for the countless hours of hard work everybody poured into this project over the past months. For a behind-the-scenes look, accompanied by entertaining commentary, check out our launch stream here: https://lnkd.in/dVxRdiBs We want to express our gratitude to the Technische Universität München which allowed us to use the Hangar in Oberpfaffenhofen. Stay tuned - moving up even further in the future! 🛰️📡 🎈

WARR Rocketry is excited to announce that our Nixus rocket EX-4B will be launched at the European Rocketry Challenge in Portugal in just a few days. Our launch crew has successfully arrived in Constância, where the competition will take place from October 9 to October 15, 2024. Our rocket, which employs a biliquid propulsion system, was transported safely to the event by our dedicated drivers Adrian Elias Rönsch and Richard Emeder, who made the journey from Munich to Portugal in just three days. Upon our arrival on October 5, we promptly unloaded our equipment and conducted dry, wet, and pressure tests on the rocket’s systems. Today, we are also testing the integration of our rocket with the D.I.N.O.labs V2 payload from WARR SpaceLabs. We are excited to showcase our work at EuRoC. Stay tuned for more updates, and be sure to follow our social media channels for the latest news!

Tune in tomorrow for the launch livestream of our inaugural MOVE-UP launch. Launching from the TUM hangar in Oberpfaffenhofen, we will test components for our MOVE-III satellite mission, just like the performance of our battery boards and our COM system for future stratospheric balloon missions. Stay tuned for further updates https://lnkd.in/eNqxreU4

WARR in Berlin Last week at the Pico- and Nano-Satellite Workshop at Technische Universität Berlin, our WARR MOVE member, Christian S. Schindler, gave an excellent presentation on our latest space hardware, STONCS, made possible by OroraTech. Check out his post about the day!

We are excited to announce that TÜV SÜD Stiftung has become our new WARR Rocketry gold sponsor! TÜV Süd just posted about our projects and we'd like to take a moment to thank them for their great support. Their contribution is helping make it possible for us to participate in major events like the "Spaceport America Cup" and the "European Rocketry Challenge". Keep an eye out for more updates as we continue to prepare for these exciting competitions!

After the successful testing of our engine in stand-alone test rig tests configuration, WARR Rocketry successfully wrapped up the integrated test for project "Nixus". In this test, we assemble the entire rocket and test it in flight configuration. This was also the first time our primary flight computer was in charge of controlling the vehicle. We are happy to announce that all systems worked together flawlessly. All the hard work during the last year in designing, manufacturing and testing the individual systems paid off, leading to a straightforward integrated campaign. During this campaign, we fired the engine for 10 seconds at a nominal thrust of 3.5kN. With this test, we further paved the way for EuRoC 2024 and can now proceed with the final launch rehearsals.

Exciting news: we shipped the next WARR hardware to go to space!   Thanks to an opportunity provided by OroraTech GmbH, we have designed and developed STONCS: our testing platform for the next generation MOVE hardware and software.   STONCS, which stands for Student Technology on CubeSat, enables us to test critical components for our CubeSat MOVE-III, including CDH, OPS, and power distribution. The main purpose of the project is to test the following components: 1. Sun sensors:     The board includes 3 in-house developed sun sensors, two of which are developed by WARR MOVE members. They are low-cost, medium accuracy, open-source alternatives to what is available commercially. This mission allows us to iterate and learn how to improve their performance in a space environment for the MOVE-III satellite. 2. Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU):     The IMU is a COTS part, which was used on previous MOVE-III Balloon test missions. With the flights proving to be successful, we are now taking the next step towards getting space heritage for the part. 3. Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM):     The MRAM on board is also a COTS part. The main test consists of writing a known data sequence into memory, and monitoring the data, as it degrades over time. 4. Software for the STM32L4R5 microcontroller:     We will test our self-developed Operating System DOSIS (Distributed Operating System Initiative for Satellites) for operating sensors, managing data and communication. The moveloader, our brand-new bootloader written in Rust, enables us to do reliable in-orbit software updates. After a year of full-time development and testing, the team has learned a lot about integrating and testing space hardware, working together, managing and distributing workload, as well as the limits of human caffeine intake. A huge thank you to OroraTech for their incredible support, and to all WARR MOVE members for their dedication and hard work that makes this mission possible!

Following successful coldflow tests to ensure the integrity and accuracy of our propellant flow systems, WARR Rocketry is pleased to announce the completion of the hotfire test for "Brunhilde" as part of project "Nixus". This engine, powered by bi-liquid propellants—liquid oxygen (LOx) and ethanol—produced a thrust of 3.5 kN during the test. The entire operation was thoroughly controlled and monitored from our control room using our newly developed test rig control hardware and software. The next critical step in our engine development program will be integrating Brunhilde into a vertically assembled rocket for further testing on our test rig. This will allow us to validate the engine’s performance in a fully integrated system, bringing us closer to our launch objectives.

One major part that contributed to the success of our WARR Rocketry project WESP's two-stage launch at SAC, was our self-developed staging mechanism consisting of two fitted components. The great specialty of this mechanism lies in its upper element. This part does not just ensure the alignment of both rocket stages before stage separation, it is also designed in such a way that it is able to take the loads occurring during staging and transfer the thrust to the remaining structure of the rocket. This time, all good things come in fours, as this component also acts as an aerodynamic boattail. The combination of these four functions – while being as lightweight as possible – was only possible with SLM 3D printing and the outstanding support of Craftcloud (www.craftcloud3d.com), who took care of not only the printing of the part, but also its post-processing.