Rocketry
Mk. III
Mk. II
Mk. I
The StrathAIS Rocketry Team is a division of StrathAIS (Strathclyde Aerospace Innovation Society). Created in 2021, the Rocketry Team successfully competed in the 2022, 2023 and 2024 Spaceport America Cup (SAC) Competition with our Level 3 rockets.
The Spaceport America Cup is the world’s largest international rocket engineering conference and competition, where over 1,700 students will attend annually in New Mexico with the opportunity to collaborate and compete at the world-class Spaceport America launch facility, representing the best and brightest from more than 150 institutions across the world. The competition is sponsored by some of the largest commercial space companies in the world, NASA, Virgin Galactic, and Blue Origin.
Each year we design and build a Level 3 rocket to be launched at the Spaceport America Cup, the world’s largest international rocketry competition. We entered Strathosphere Mk. 1 in 2022 and have attended the competition every year since, improving massively along the way. Close collaboration between sub-teams and students is critical to ensure that our flagship rocketry project can be launched each year.
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Mk. III
Our latest in the Level 3 Strathosphere family, the Mk. III first started development in 2023 after another successful year at the Spaceport America Cup using the Mk. II.
Carrying the momentum forward, the Mk. III was entered into the 10K COTS category of the 2024 IREC Spaceport America Cup which resulted in the best result the Rocketry Team has seen, placing 9th in our category!
The Rocketry team consists of two project team leads who act as systems engineers and oversee the rocket design. The team is then further split into 5 sub-teams, each focused on a central part of the overall rocket design.
These sub teams are; Aero-Structures, Avionics, Payload, Recovery and Propulsion.
MK II
Our second rocket in the Level 3 Strathosphere family, the MK II first started development in 2021 after our first year at the Spaceport America Cup.
The MK II was entered into the same 10K COTS category of the 2023 IREC Spaceport America Cup which achieved great results from the previous year.
MK I
Our first rocket in the Level 3 Strathosphere family, the MK I was a major milestone after years of planning and research consisting of only 19 members.
Entering for the first time into the 10K COTS category of the 2022 IREC Spaceport America Cup our team managed a successful launch and recovery. Marking a huge milestone in the teams history.