SMall Innovative Launcher for Europe

Leo Timmermans

On 11 and 12 December 2018, NLR hosted the Final Review of the SMILE project in Amsterdam. The results of the project were to European Commission representatives and the project partners. The project was performed in good cooperation and good spirit within the consortium, and with good guidance from the […]

SMILE Final Review

2018-12-12 in News by Leo Timmermans

In hot firing tests in September 2018, a research team led by DLR subjected a reusable rocket engine to an initial test run. It successfully completed a total of 18 tests at the high-pressure test bench of Spanish project partner PLD Space, with a firing time of up to 45 […]

DLR and PLD successfully completed hot firing tests

2018-11-14 in News by Leo Timmermans

On Thursday 27 September Nammo successfully completed the first launch of Nucleus, a sounding rocket powered by its new hybrid rocket motor. Nucleus launched at 14:16: local time from Andøya Space Center in Northern Norway, and reached an altitude of 107.4 km. That made it not only the first rocket […]

Successful first launch of hybrid engine by Nammo

2018-09-27 in News by Leo Timmermans