HAAS
is an innovative air-launched, 3 stages orbital rocket, preliminary
designed in 2006 using the technology developed at ARCA during The
Ansari X Prize Competition and The European Private Manned Space Program.
The rocket was named after Conrad Haas* (1509-1579) Austrian-Romanian
medieval rocket pioneer, the first creator of multiple stages rockets.
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HAAS
technical data
Type: Air launched orbital rocket
Stages: 3 (H1+H2+H3)
Rocket vehicle length (with ELE payload): ~18 m
Rocket vehicle diameter: ~4 m
Rocket vehicle gross weight: 23 300 kg
LEO mass: 400 kg
Stage
H1
Type: Rocket powered, pressure feed
Used for: Rocket acceleration
Gross weight: 14 800 kg
Burn time: 100 s
Fuel: Hydrogen peroxide 85% + bitumen based fuel
Thrust: 47 600 kgf
Stage
H2
Type: Rocket powered, pressure feed
Used for: Rocket acceleration
Gross weight: 7 350 kg
Burn time: 110 s
Fuel: Hydrogen peroxide 85% + bitumen based fuel
Thrust: 24 800 kgf
Stage
H3
Type: Rocket powered, pressure feed
Used for: LEO injection
Gross weight: 2 100 kg
Burn time: 168 s
Fuel: Hydrogen peroxide 85% + bitumen based fuel
Thrust: 5 850 kgf
CARRIER
BALLOON
The
HAAS rocket will be lifted at 18.000m altitude with the help of a
2.000.000
m3
Solar Montgolfier balloon.
CARRIER
BALLOON technical data
Type: "0" pressure Solar Montgolfier balloon
Used
for: rocket launcher lifting to altitude
Balloon diameter: 160 m
Gross weight: 7 000 kg
Volume: 2 000 000 m3
Max. flight altitude: 18 000 m
*
In 1529, Conrad Haas succeeded to launch, in the Sibiu County, rockets
in two and three stages with black powder. He also proposed the use
of delta-shape wings meant to stabilize a rocket during flight. He
also worked to develop a large variety of fuels. At that time, military
rockets were his main preoccupation. He served in the army and also
took part in the battle against Turkish Empire in 1542, near Vienna.
He also understood the role of rocket propulsion in civil field application.
HAAS suggested an experiment with an animal on board of a rocket.
We don't have enough information to say if such an experiment had
happened.
