Vostok on the Nexø slipway
The Nexø slipway is scheduled to take the Vostok onto land on March 29th, 2017. We have had the Vostok since November 2012. It still hasn’t been on land in the time the association has Read more…
Building a Capacitive Liquid Oxygen Level Sensor
Building a Capacitive Liquid Oxygen Level Sensor
We smashed the space capsule
Dear readers, A week ago we performed a test of our space capsule scale model at Copenhagen Air Experience’s wind tunnel facility. Let me start with showing you how we ended the day. Which shows Read more…
Dynamic rocket engine regulation
Dear readers, On Saturday February 4th we had the great pleasure to make our “Dynamic Pressure Regulation” truly dynamic. Until Saturday we have utilised the DPR-system to maintain a constant pressure in the tanks, and Read more…
A slightly foggy day – Rocket engine test
On Saturday, February 4th we tested our BPM-5 rocket engine. As something new, we used our pressurization system actively by changing the engine chamber pressure along the way. We tried to keep the O/F ratio Read more…
BPM5 Rocket Engine Tests – Feb 2017
Fuel and LOX ratio BPM5 Rocket Engine Tests
Engine test this coming weekend
The rocket engines will roar again on Refshaleøen! The test will concentrate on optimizing the operating point of the Nexø II flight engine. This means that we will test a number of different pressure levels, Read more…
Wind tunnel test of the model of the space capsule
(translation by Bo Brændstrup) Dear readers, It is with great pleasure that I can inform you that we will test our scale model of the space capsule for the first Danish amateur astronaut very soon. Read more…
Nexø II DPR
Dear Readers, Recently, a reader of our Ing.dk blog asked for more detail on the Nexø II DPR system and high pressure tank. Thus, let us look into that in this post. The simplest way Read more…
