Student teams from Poland have gained a slew of awards at a global rocket engineering competition in the United States, with a group from Wrocław University of Science and Technology among the many occasion’s prime performers.
The PWr in Space group took second place in a flight class at the FAR-OUT competition, held in California’s Mojave Desert, and acquired 4 further awards.
The SKA Rocketry group from Warsaw University of Technology gained the prize for Best Technical Report.
The FAR-OUT competition is organised by the Friends of Amateur Rocketry affiliation and focuses on rockets powered by hybrid and liquid-fuel engines. Teams are judged on how precisely their rockets attain a declared altitude and may reveal engine efficiency by way of static firing assessments.
This 12 months’s competition attracted 12 teams from the United States, Poland and Mexico.
Five Polish college teams took half: SimLE SimBa from Gdańsk University of Technology, PUT Rocketlab from Poznań University of Technology, AGH Space Systems from AGH University of Science and Technology, PWr in Space from Wrocław University of Science and Technology, and SKA Rocketry from Warsaw University of Technology.
PWr in Space completed second in the class for launches between 3,000 and 15,000 toes. The class was gained by the Wildcat Rocket Engineering Club from the University of Arizona. SimLE SimBa positioned fourth with its R7 Orzeł rocket.
The Wrocław group additionally acquired the Most Efficient Engine – Liquid Award, which recognises essentially the most environment friendly liquid-fuel engine in the competition. It was additional honoured with the Best Launch Operations Award and the Best Ground Support Equipment Award.
The group competed with its R7 Together rocket.
“This is a huge moment for us. It is the result of many months of work by the entire PWr in Space team, operating at Wrocław University of Science and Technology as part of the PoliWRocket project, in which we design and build experimental sounding rockets,” group representatives mentioned.
PUT Rocketlab and AGH Space Systems additionally competed in the three,000-15,000-foot class.
In a put up on social media, PUT Rocketlab mentioned: “The PUT Rocketlab team successfully built and launched a rocket equipped with an advanced hydraulic system, reaching an apogee of 11,460 feet during this year’s competition – the highest result of any participating team. The launch damaged the commercial computer responsible for the recovery system. Nevertheless, we managed to recover the avionics computers and partially damaged propulsion components. Thanks to the data obtained, we are beginning work on improving our largest project.”
SKA Rocketry acquired the award for Best Technical Report.
Alongside the competition, college students attended talks by representatives from organisations and corporations together with Mojave Air & Space Port, Muon Space, SpaceX and Boeing.
Detailed competition outcomes can be found at: https://www.faroutlaunch.org/results
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