Hi,
I hope this mail will answer some of your questions.
Coordinates of launch site:
63°38.20', 17°56.34'
https://kartor.eniro.se/?c=63.636732,17.939043&z=15&l=aerial
Costs:
The cost depends on several factors and may vary greatly from launch to launch.
Some of the factors are:
Number of launch windows
Maximum altitude
Which propellants and chemicals used.
If the local fire department must be on site and for how long.
Personnel costs
Handling fees
Road closure fees
A launch permit for a sounding rocket using LOX/LH2 with the dimensions you
describe with a maximum altitude of 100km will cost around €1000-€2000.
Handling fees and road closure fees will be added to the total (about €250/day).
Flight Termination System:
Small, low-altitude rockets do not need FTS (up to 11 000 meters).
Larger liquids and hybrids must be able to shut off the engine(s) in flight.
Solids must also be able to terminate the thrust (how is entirely up to the
customer).
Propellants:
Other propellants than those I specified earlier may be possible to deliver to
the site. (I'll see if I can arrange LCH4).
Regarding HTP, I can definitely arrange larger quantities if needed, but for
now the limit is 20kg/month. The peroxide is stabilized with sodium stannate.
Regards,
Malte
On fre, nov 30, 2018 at 23:28, cnc-engineering@xxxxxx wrote: Hi Malte,
eventually having available a space port usable for low cost launch projects
in Europe indeed is really good news ! Some questions about this:
- is it possible to send the exact coordinates, so the site could be looked at
on google maps ?
- is it already known, which formal effort will be needed to launch up to 30
or 100 km ? (I think the last questions has been asked by another list member
1-2 days ago... . ) When trying to launch in Kiruna (Sweden) or Andoya (Norway)
it seems like the paper work will keep busy at least two engineers for half a
year. This effort will be barely possible to invest for most of the low cost
projects.
- what kind of flight termination system will be needed ?
- depending on the formal boundary conditions testing a sounding rocket using
LOX / LH2 or LOX / LCH4 would be interesting. (Diameter: about 500 mm, Length:
about 5 m) 100 km max.
- how high the launch fee approximately would be ?
- might LCH4 also be available ?
- HTP is interesting for the RCS under consideration: 20 kg / month is not
very high a quantity: eventually the quantity could be increased ? HTP
available will be free of stabilizers, so it can be used with Ag based
catalysts, I assume ? Eventually HTP up to 98 % also might be available ?
Have a good day - best regards,
Peter
Am 29.11.2018 um 22:54 schrieb DH Barr:
Congratulations, that's wonderful news!
On Thu, Nov 29, 2018 at 3:15 PM Malte Andersson wrote:
It's now more than two years ago I wrote a message to all of you that I planned
to establish a launch site in northern Sweden. After many ifs and buts, I
finally found a private investment company that owns an old air force base of
approximately 30000000m2! This site includes several concrete pads,
törebodabågar and a runway of 2228 meters in good condition. This means we will
be able to host rocket launches from March 2019, the application must be
submitted to me no later than 1½ months prior to scheduled launch to ensure we
have time to get all the necessary permissions before launch. A launch
application can contain a number of dates and times over a 30-day period, which
means you can perform several launches with the same permission.
The following propellants are available upon request
Oxidizers:
Liquid oxygen
Anhydrous nitric acid
HTP(80-90%) - Smaller amounts of only 20kg per month are available
Fuels:
Liquid hydrogen
Aniline
Triethylamine
Tetramethylethylenediamine
Ethanolamine
Morpholine
Isopropanol
//Malte Andersson