UKSEDS created the National Rocketry Championships in 2013 with the aim of providing university students who have had no or limited experience in the field of rocketry hands-on experience in designing, building and launching a rocket.
Teams are challenged with designing, building and launching a mid-power rocket with the primary goal of reaching an apogee of 2500ft. Motor selection will be limited to ensure a fair competition between teams. Teams must also have a payload on their rocket, to be more accurate to real rocket launches. Teams will also be required to submit a brief technical report detailing their design and build for evaluation by our skilled team of industry experts.
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2023-2024
The NRC teams at Peryton Space have faced a highly challenging competition this year, especially for our newer engineers who were truly ‘thrown in at the deep end’. Despite this, they have excelled, successfully designing and launching their rockets on competition day.
Many aspects of their designs were highly innovative, and they demonstrated engineering practices often beyond what is typically expected from 1st and 2nd year students.
This not only highlights the exceptional talent of our team members but also underscores the importance of engineering competitions and societies like Peryton in fostering the development of skilled, creative, and competent engineers.
I’m excited to see how these students will continue to grow in future projects and look forward to working with our new intake of rocketry team members next year.
Additional Media
2022-2023
Purpose- Detect Radiation at Varying Altitudes to observe nuclear or solar Phenomena
1st-Unable to calibrate and test due to faulty Resistor
2nd- Components were replaced but due to excessive G-force at launch no data was recorded as the pins bent and shorten the circuit
2021-2022
The team tunnel-visioned on a poorly designed rocket. It was maximised for apogee but it relied to heavily on Open Rocket. The launch was a failure, with the rocket swerving off the rail. The rocket was recovered over 250 days after it was launched after it lost a battle against a tractor. This was a huge learning experience for the team. (2022)
2020-2021
In our first year competing in the NRC, Peryton Space came 4th overall and achieved the 2nd highest apogee of the competition, 925m. Peryton 1 was the first rocket ever designed, built and launched by Peryton Space. It held a 100 g payload that measured the angular velocity, acceleration and velocity of the rocket, as well as the temperature of the air and the magnetic field of the Earth. It was found 24 hours after launch the next day. (2021)
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