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Antares e.V.

20 kN Testbed
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- Ignition Tests
- Fuel Ignition (back to 20 kN Testbed)

Lander

100 kN Testbed

Hybrsid Launcher

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Fuel Ignition

An important test before our engine is running as a whole system is to ignite the polyethylene. We made 13 successful test runs of the ignition system under laboratory circumstances.

Watch the high quality video (Quicktime .mov frmat, 4.2 MByte) of a fuel ignition.
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Read about hybrid rocket engines, also called solid/liquid engines or lithergol engines.

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