Team Leads

Garan Carter-Woodgate
Abigail Durrant
Gianluca Borgo
Manisha Mahesh Kumar
Tianna Patel
Ben Busschaert
James Bailey
Christian Stimpson
Louis Hall

Committee members

Zoe Costigan
Nick Hall
Libby Paine
Nik Pedzik
Ethan Wilson
Adi Soundalgekar
Alexander Wolverson
Veronika Predeina
Grace Garczynski
Filippo Caley

Supervisor

Dr Charlie Ryan

Spaceflight Society has run six projects this year: Electric Propulsion, Mars Rover, High- powered Rocketry, CanSat, Liquid Rocket Engine and Turbomachinery.

Electric Propulsion has taught new members the scaling laws and software required for the basic design of a low-power hall effect thruster and designed and built a successor to Io1 – Io2 which is a 1kW argon hall effect thruster.

Mars Rover has built a fully functional rover capable of capturing, scanning, and transmitting data from QR codes. Currently, the team is working on a national outreach project to develop educational kits for school students to build their own rovers!

High-powered Rocketry is in the process of designing and building a solid motor rocket for launch at the Mach-25 competition in July. CanSat is their payload.

Liquid Rocket Engine has been working towards developing a liquid rocket engine to test fire at the race to space competition in July, with manufacture well underway! Alongside this, they have finalised the design for their liquid rocket and are completing manufacture and testing for this too, with hopefully a physical launch test coming up later this year.

This year, the Turbomachinery engine team has developed and manufactured the test stand and engine components required for testing and characterisation. The pump team also started the design of the turbo-pump system for future integration with the engine using specialised software acquired through sponsorship. To complete the year, the team aims to test the engine system at R2S before shifting focus to the deployment of the turbo pumps and feed systems in future years.