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Haas

About Haas
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. 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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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.