Welcome to the Archimedes blog!
Here, you will find updates on the Archimedes project and the MIRIAM technology demonstrator which will be launched on a sounding rocket from the ESRANGE facility near Kiruna, Sweden, next week.
I initially started this blog for my personal reflection and to document the trip to Sweden for friends, family and the Engineering Leadership Program of my University, which has kindly agreed to partially sponsor my trip. However, this blog may also be of interest to anyone following the project. You can learn more about me and my involvement with the Archimedes project in the "About Me" section.
I will leave for Sweden tomorrow and am planning to provide regular updates and images when I arrive. I will also introduce the rest of the team and provide more technical background information once I am there. In the mean time, if you would like to learn more about the project, please follow this link to the project's main page. You can also view the project abstracts on the right menu bar.
Best,
Andy
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MIRIAM combines all research programs within the ARCHIMEDES development program, and is currently planned for launch to a 200km peak altitude from the SSC ESRANGE rocket test site near Kiruna, North Sweden on top of the REXUS4 sounding rocket managed and built by the DLR Moraba group of Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. MIRIAM's launch is now planned for October 21, 2008.
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- Day 7: Last Day at Esrange
- Day 6: Launch and Mission Summary
- Day 5: The Anticipation Rises....
- Day 4: Safety briefing and Trajectory Simulation
- Day 3, Part 2: Flight Commissioning, Bench Test & ...
- Day 3, Part 1: Radar Hill & Preparations for the B...
- Day 2: Shopping Adventure and Camera Testing
- Day 1: Arrival at Esrange
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About ARCHIMEDES
ARCHIMEDES is an effort to probe the atmosphere of planet Mars by means of a hypersonic drag balloon, a device known as a “ballute”. The project is currently under study, proposed and supported by the Mars Society Germany, the Universität der Bundeswehr München, the AMSAT-DL .e.V. organization, the DLR, and several other research institutions and industrial companies. The probe is planned to be integrated into the AMSAT’s P5-A Mars satellite, and to be released from the spacecraft when in orbit around the planet. Launch of the P5-A is currently planned for late 2011 as a piggyback payload on an Ariane V rocket, as it is standard practice for spacecraft of the German AMSAT section. It is jointly developed by The Mars Society Germany and several institutes of the University of the Federal Armed Forces of Germany in Munich.
About MIRIAM
MIRIAM combines all research programs within the ARCHIMEDES development program, and is currently planned for launch to a 200km peak altitude from the SSC ESRANGE rocket test site near Kiruna, North Sweden on top of the REXUS4 sounding rocket managed and built by the DLR Moraba group of Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany. MIRIAM's launch is now planned for October 21, 2008.
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