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The Canadian Arrow is a privately funded rocket and space travel project founded by London, Ontario, Canada entrepreneur Geoff Sheerin. The objective is to take the first civilians into outer space. A Redstone rocket, part of the Mercury program A rocket is a vehicle, missile or aircraft which obtains thrust by the reaction to the ejection of fast moving exhaust gas from within a rocket engine. ...
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Canadian Arrow was considered one of the top three candidates for the X-Prize competition, along with Scaled Composites (Burt Rutan),and Armadillo Aerospace (John Carmack). Scaled Composites won the competition on October 4, 2004. The X prize logo shows a stylised letter X representing a spacecraft trajectory and containing a starfield. ...
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The Canadia Arrow team's motto is "making SPACE for you." They have completed the first series of tests on their 57,000 lbf (254 kN) thrust engine and have built a space training centre and a full scale mock-up of their rocket. After an open nomination process, they have also recruited an impressive team of six astronauts from around the world, including several seasoned military pilots and a NASA trained astronaut from Ukraine. NASA Logo Listen to this article · (info) This audio file was created from the revision dated 2005-09-01, and does not reflect subsequent edits to the article. ...
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Design
The Canadian Arrow is a 16.5 m tall two-stage rocket, where the second stage is a three-person space capsule. Their somewhat conservative approach has been to base the design of their rocket engine and aerodynamics on the well proven V-2 design from WWII. German test launch. ...
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First stage The first stage is 10.2 m long and 1.7 m in diameter. It is propelled by a single liquid fuel rocket engine. It produces a thrust of 254 kN. Graphite jet vanes are used for stabilisation before the rocket has reached a velocity high enough for the four fins to be effectual. In about a minute after ignition, the fuel is depleted and the engine shuts off. he r0x0rs ...
Second stage The second stage is 6 m long and 1.7 m in diameter at the base. It carries the three astronauts and is propelled by four JATO-type solid rocket engines. These are ignited immediately after stage separation, and will carry the capsule to an altitude of ~112 km. Cold gas jets are used for attitude control. JATO is an acronym for Jet Assisted Take Off. ...
Crew Cabin Escape System The four solid rocket engines in the second stage can be fired at any time, including when the rocket still stands on the launch pad. This allows an escape system, which can, in a case of an emergency, quickly separate the second stage from the rocket and propel it to an altitude of 1.5 km, where the parachutes can be deployed.
Rocket engine The rocket engine uses alcohol and liquid oxygen as propellants, and produces a maximum thrust of 254 kN, and burns for 55 s. It is constructed of low carbon steel, with propellant injectors made out of brass. The kilonewton, symbol kN, is an SI unit of force. ...
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Flight profile The Canadian Arrow rocket will launch vertically from the ground. Initial thrust is ~75.5 kN, but the rocket quickly reaches maximum thrust. After 55 s, the propellant is depleted and stage separation occurs. The solid fuel rockets in the second stage are ignited and boosts it up to an altitude of ~112 km, where the crew and passengers will experience a few minutes of zero-G.
After stage separation the first stage reaches an apogee of over 80 km before descent begins. Four parachutes slows it down before splashdown occurs at a speed of ~9 m/s, after which recovery of the stage can take place.
At descent, the crew cabin (the second stage) will use a ballute to reduce the speed. When it is slowed down to subsonic speed, the ballute is released and pulls out the three parachutes for the splashdown. A ballute (a compound word combining balloon and parachute) is a device that has been proposed for use in spacecraft aerobraking. ...
Testing - October 5, 2002: The rocket test stand complete.
- August 14, 2004: Canadian Arrow carries out a successful drop test of the crew cabin, to test the parachutes and recovery routines.
- May 12, 2005: First engine tests conducted.
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August 14 is the 226th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (227th in leap years), with 139 days remaining. ...
2004 (MMIV) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...
May 12 is the 132nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (133rd in leap years). ...
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Funding, commercial aspects and the future Geoff Sherin, President and CEO of Canadian Arrow, and Dr. Chirinjeev Kathuria announced on May 17, 2005, the creation of Planetspace Corporation. It is through this enterprise that Canadian Arrow will complete the construction of their space craft, and within 24 months offer suborbital space flight to aspiring space tourists. Planetspace expects to fly about 2,000 new astronauts within five years of operation. The price is expected to be $250,000 for each flight, including fourteen days of training. May 17 is the 137th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (138th in leap years). ...
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Canadian Arrow also investigates the possibility of spacediving activities using their spacecraft.
On November 11, 2005 Canadian Arrow teamed up with former Xprize competitor Romanian aerospace company, ARCA, to develop privately built spacecraft.[1]
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