Private Space Program
ARCA announced in March 2012 that it has initiated a private space program (called the Romanian Space Program, as the Romanian Space Agency runs its state program through the ESA) with a number of short-, medium-, and long-term objectives:
- The short-term objectives involve finishing the Executor engine, the IAR-111 carrier plane, and the Haas-2 rocket. These will be used to launch the ELE probe to the Moon's surface as part of the Google Lunar X-Prize.
- The medium-term objective is to develop a manned crew cabin that is to be launched on suborbital flight at 180 km by a Haas-2b rocket.
- In the long term (2020s), ARCA is to develop a medium-launch vehicle called the Super Haas. This is a two-stage rocket that consists of a lower stage that groups seven Haas-2 or Haas-2b rockets and an upper stage that uses two Executor Plus engines optimized for thrust in a vacuum. The Super Haas is supposed to generate 260 kN of traction at launch and can place a 2.6 metric ton load into low earth orbit.
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