This autumn, the Central Air Force Police in Ustka will become the launch site of the Perun suborbital rocket. This is another test of this system, but for the first time in the past of Polish space technologies on board the Polish rocket will be carried out investigation loads and experiments. At an altitude of 50 km, tactical stasis for pilots and astronauts will be tested.
The Gdynia SpaceForest company announced that in the next fewer weeks there will be a 3rd flight of the Perun suborbital rocket. The initiative is implemented under the European Space Agency (ESA) "Boost!" programme, which aims to support the improvement of commercial space transport services and suborbital infrastructure. During the upcoming flight, Perun is expected to scope a partial nominal tallness which for suborbital flights is just above 100 km above sea level (Kármán line). During specified flights, the rocket goes beyond the atmosphere, then returns to Earth after a ballistic track, without performing a full circulation around the planet. The full flight usually takes a few–a fewer minutes.
According to SpaceForest's assurances, Perun is adapted for this kind of flight, but the upcoming effort involves the launch of a rocket on limit of 50 km. The Perun prepared for take-off is 12 m long and 450 mm in diameter. The starting mass does not exceed a ton, with a ‘dry mass’ (technology with but without propellant) of about 400 kg. Perun is simply a multi-use hybrid-powered (nitrous oxide and modified paraffin) structure and will be fished out of the Baltic waters after successful flight.
The main nonsubjective of the upcoming mission is to confirm the correct operation of the rocket system, to integrate loads into the platform and to carry out tests and experiments under launch and suborbital flight conditions. On board Peruna there will be, among others, plant seeds, bacterial culture and yeast, live bone cells, but besides tactical stasis (pressure bands) which in the future can service pilots and astronauts. Putting them in the Perun cargo will test the stableness of the force of compression of the band under suborbital conditions.
SpaceForest, the creators of Perun, is simply a private company from Gdynia, operating since 2004. He specializes in developing advanced rocket, radar and microwave technologies, as well as in designing and producing advanced electronics for the defence and space sectors. Perun was almost entirely produced in Gdynia by a company with Polish capital.
– We want to supply commercial suborbital transport services, and according to our marketplace research, Perun would be able to meet 45 percent of the request for specified flights, says Robert Magiera, president of SpaceForest. However, the company does not intend to halt there and already announces that after 2027 an even larger Perun can be created, which will fly at a ceiling of up to 300 km. At the same time, Magiera stresses that this rocket represents about 1/3 of the company's activities and the main trend he wants to make concerns radar technologies.
Perun's erstwhile flight took place 2 years ago., but SpaceForest had already tested a reduced rocket model in 2018 (Bigos 4 weighed 65 kg, it was 5.5 m long and 20 cm in diameter) on the ground in Drawsk Pomerania. At that time, the flight could have taken place at a maximum of 15 km, which was dictated by the polygonal safety issues.
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