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”Nucleus” ”Aurora”
Single unitary motor Four unitary
motors
”Aurora” ”Borealis”
Four unitary Seven unitary
motors motors
Sounding Rockets for the Future vectoring and attitude control system when needed.
The North Star family is a new family of sounding The payload section is based on the Hotel Payload
rockets based on hybrid rocket motors designed to standard, which is a scalable and reliable design.
be a flexible and safe alternative to today’s solid
fueled sounding rocket motors. North Star includes launch services from either
Andøya or Svalbard, and the launch can be timed to
North Star is based on a modular, hybrid motor a geophysical event for in-situ measurements and
design and incorporates features such as thrust instrument exposure.
North Star Launch Service
The Versatile, Green and Safe Launch Service
Payload
10 kg to 350 km
polar LEO 6
5
”Corona”
3
Single unitary
motor 2
1 Graph provided by
Why?
Nano satellites are relatively cheap to make, but
launch costs are high, and the waiting list to
piggy-back on larger missions is several months or
longer.
Sounds interesting?
For more information on the North Star family, please contact:
Mr Kolbjørn Blix Dahle, Dr C.J. Verberne,
Marketing, Andøya Rocket Range Technology, Nammo Raufoss AS
kolbjorn@rocketrange.no cj.verberne@nammo.com
Illustrations: Trond Abrahamsen, ARR. Copyright © 2013 Andøya Rocket Range and Nammo Raufoss AS. Print by Designfabrikken.