Photo: NASA
CSI Rocketry designs, builds, and tests high-powered hybrid rockets. Every year, we push the boundaries of engineering further as we advance our rocket’s performance: from optimising valve design to manufacturing composite structures. This team runs on curiosity and dedication. If you love to build and create alongside others that share this passion, or are a company looking to back this spirit, we’d love to hear from you.
This year, we will continue to refine and improve our hybrid rocket for our most ambitious launch yet of 30,000 ft. We also aim to begin our liquid program by building a liquid test stand for future testing.
Mechanical design
Machining and rapid prototyping
Structural and thermal analysis
Avionics and electronics
Chemical engineering of thrust design
Computer modeling of rocket performance
Composite material analysis and manufacturing
Data acquisition and sensor system design
Propulsion systems design
Business development
We were the first-ever US student team to successfully launch a LOx-paraffin rocket!
This past week, our Rockets mission successfully launched their nitrous-parrafin hybrid rocket named PleaseGoHigher at the inaugural FAR-OUT competition in the Californian Mojave desert.
PleaseGoHigher went FARther OUT, further Up, and Higher than ever, surpassing last year’s PleaseGoUp rocket and winning second place in its launch category and first place in podium presentations. It produced over a half-ton of thrust, accelerated at 16G’s and successfully deployed parachutes to safely land and be recovered. This rocket was entirely student-designed, manufactured, and tested in-house this year, and is CSI and Columbia’s second-ever rocket launch and first-ever successful recovery.
Huge congratulations to the entire team!
– Tycho Bogdanowitsch, Former Co-President & Rockets Co-Lead
