{"id":8292,"date":"2020-01-09T22:08:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-09T20:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceteam.at\/?p=8292"},"modified":"2020-01-09T22:08:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-09T20:08:01","slug":"year-report-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wptest3.tust.at\/index.php\/2020\/01\/09\/year-report-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Year Report 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Hound<\/a><\/h1>\n

The goal of the project The Hound is it to reach an altitude of 100 km using solid rocket motors. That would mean a student world record. After our first attempt failed in 2018 with only reaching an altitude of 13 km, a second attempt was made in September 2019 \u2013 again in the desert of Nevada in the US.<\/p>\n

The team of the The Hound corrected the known issues that were responsible for the failure of the first attempt in 2018 and rebuilt the whole rocket with some small improvements.<\/p>\n

On launch day in September 2019 however, for up to this day still unknown reasons, the angle of attack of the rocket increased to 16\u00b0 after 3.5 seconds at a height of 1700 m above ground. That caused the airframe of the upper stage to seperate from the booster motor which further prevented an electric supply of the sensors of the booster. Even though the tracker in the upper stage continued to send data, the apogee could be detected only at about 2200 m over ground instead of 100 km as planned.<\/p>\n

However, the The Hound team continues to be motivated and is already working on The Hound III, which is supposed to launch in September 2020.<\/p>\n