Sunday, 15 March 2009

ARCA test lunar engine

Aeronautics and Cosmonautics Romanian Association (ARCA) has recently conducted a propellant firing test for its Stabilo suborbital space vehicle. In addition, the company also tested the lunar injection engine for its European Lunar Explorer - a vehicle that the company hope will be able to soft land on the Moon's surface. ARCA, who joined the X-Prize competition in 2002 have so far concentrated their efforts on two main projects: demonstrator rockets, designed to test essential features of a range of larger vehicles and Stabilo, a two man, air launched suv-orbital vehicle designed to be launched from a solar montgolfier balloon.