Haas (rocket)

Haas rocket

Haas is a family of rocket space launchers developed by the Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association (ARCA) for the Google Lunar X Prize competition and for their national manned space program. It consists of Haas balloon-launched orbital rocket, Haas 2 airplane-launched orbital rocket, Haas 2b ground-launched suborbital rocket and Super Haas ground-launched orbital rocket.

It was named after Conrad Haas, a medieval rocket pioneer who lived and worked in what is now Romania, and was the first person to describe a multistage rocket in writing.^[1]

Haas

Haas was a Romanian carrier rocket, which was developed by ARCA as part of the ELE programme. It was designed to be air-launched from a high-altitude balloon, similar to the American Rockoon experiments of the 1950s. Prior to the development of Haas, ARCA had already launched two Stabilo rockets from balloons. It is fueled by hydrogen peroxide and bitumen.

The Haas rocket^[1] was to be a three-stage rocket intended to be capable of placing 400 kilograms of payload into low Earth orbit. Its maiden flight was to carry the European Lunar Explorer spacecraft, ARCA's entry into the Google Lunar X-Prize, following a series of engine tests which began in 2009.

It was abandoned when ARCA decided to stop using solar and helium balloons for their space program.

Haas 2

Haas 2 rocket with IAR 111 supersonic plane

Haas 2 is an orbital two-stage launcher intended to be carried under the fuselage of the IAR 111 supersonic plane. It is powered by the new Executor liquid-fueled rocket engine^[2] under development at ARCA. Its intended launch altitude is approximately 17,000 m. It is intended to place a 400 kg payload into low Earth orbit.

Haas 2c

Haas 2c rocket in Victory Square

Haas 2c rocket

Haas 2c is a flight testing platform for the Executor engine. It was an intended single-stage-to-orbit vehicle due to its lightweight fuel tanks and, as of June 2012, had been planned for an early 2013 launch. ARCA announced that after the successful flight test of Executor engine, that they would construct a multi-stage rocket based on Haas 2c in order to win the Google Lunar X Prize competition. Engine tests are scheduled to begin in June 2012 ^[3]

General characteristics

Length: 18 m
Diameter: 1.2 m
Empty weightl: 510 kg
Weight with fuel: 16,000 kg
Engine thrust: 230,000 N
Engine burn time: 3 min
Fuel burn rate: 85 kg/s

Super Haas rocket

References

1 2 ARCA Space, Haas Orbital Rocket Launcher fact sheet, Dec. 2, 2008 (accessed 22 Sept 2014)
↑ ARCA, Executor Rocket Engine (accessed 22 Sept 2014)
↑ "Haas 2C orbital rocket presented in Victory Square in Bucharest". Mediafax. Retrieved 2012-06-03.

External Pages

"Haas Orbital Rocket Launcher" (pdf). ARCA. 2008-12-23. Retrieved 2008-12-25.
"Romanian Space Program" (pdf). ARCA. 2012-02-25. Retrieved 2012-03-08.

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Orbital launch systems

Current	Angara 1.2 A5 Antares Ariane 5 Atlas V Delta II IV Dnepr-1 Epsilon Falcon 9 full thrust GSLV GSLV Mk III H-IIA H-IIB Kuaizhou Long March 2C 2D 2F 3A 3B 3C 4B 4C 6 11 Minotaur I IV V C Pegasus Proton-M PSLV Rokot Safir Shavit Strela Soyuz U FG 2 2.1a 2.1b 2-1v Unha Vega Zenit 2M 3SL 3SLB 3F

In development	Angara A5P A5V Ariane 6 Athena Ic IIc III Ausroc IV Electron Falcon Heavy Firefly α FT-1 H3 Haas KZ-11 Long March 5 7 8 9 LauncherOne Mayak Naga-1 Naro-2 OREL RPS (420, 550) Simorgh SLS Southern Cross Soyuz-5 SPARK Tronador II ULV VLM Vulcan

Retired	Ariane 1 2 3 4 ASLV Athena I II Atlas B D E/F G H I II III LV-3B SLV-3 Able Agena Centaur Black Arrow Conestoga Delta A B C D E G J L M N 0100 1000 2000 3000 4000 5000 III Diamant Energia Europa Falcon 1 Falcon 9 v1.0 v1.1 Feng Bao 1 H-I H-II Juno I Juno II Kaituozhe-1 Kosmos 1 2I 3 3M Lambda 4S Long March 1 2A 2E 3 4A Mu 4S 3C 3H 3S 3SII V N1 N-I N-II Naro-1 Paektusan Pilot Proton UR-500 K R-7 Luna Molniya M L Polyot Soyuz L M U2 Soyuz/Vostok Sputnik Voskhod Vostok L K 2 2M R-29 Shtil' Volna Saturn I IB V INT-21 Scout SLV Space Shuttle Sparta Start-1 Thor Able Ablestar Agena Burner Delta DSV-2U Thorad-Agena Titan II GLV IIIA IIIB IIIC IIID IIIE 34D 23G CT-3 IV Tsyklon 2 3 Vanguard Zenit-2

European orbital launch systems

Active	Ariane 5 Vega

In development	Ariane 6 Bloon Bloostar North Star Skylon SOAR microsatellite launcher

Retired	Ariane 1 2 3 4 Black Arrow Diamant Europa

Cancelled	Aldebaran Ariane 5 ME Ariane M Capricornio Hopper HOTOL Hyperion SSTO Liquid Fly-back Booster Derivatives MUSTARD OTRAG

Other: Haas rockets (USA, formerly Romania, in development), Liberty (USA-Europe concept, cancelled)

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