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Lakshya, a pupil rocket developed by R.V. College of Engineering (RVCE), has emerged arsenic the victor successful IN-SPACe’s Model Rocketry Competition.
At the IN-SPACe Model Rocketry and CANSAT India Student Competition 2024–25 held astatine Tamkuhiraj, Kushinagar successful Uttar Pradesh recently, RVCE’s Team Antariksh which developed the Lakshya rocket edged retired 31 teams to look arsenic the victor of the competition.
The contention progressive designing, processing and launching a Model Rocket carrying a CAN-Size Satellite of 1 kg wide to an altitude of 1000 metre supra the motorboat site, on with harmless ejection of the CANSAT and harmless landing of the rocket.
A ten-member squad comprising 8 students and 2 module members from Team Antariksh, who participated successful the contention said that they were capable to execute the feat without immoderate glitch.
“The squad was preparing for much than a twelvemonth for this competition, and during the motorboat everything went arsenic per program arsenic they were capable to successfully motorboat the rocket with the CANSAT to an 1 km Apogee and safely retrieve some the rocket and the outer intact,” Prof. Ravindra S. Kulkarni, caput of department, Department of Aerospace Engineering told The Hindu.
Prof. Kulkarni said that the squad besides developed their ain CANSAT for the launch.
“The full motorboat series was similar a emblematic rocket motorboat similar 1 would witnesser successful a spaceport similar Sriharikota which was a large learning acquisition for the students,” Prof. Kulkarni said.
The IN-SPACe Model Rocketry and CANSAT India Student Competition 2024–25 was held connected the banks of the Narayani River astatine Tamkuhiraj.
The four-day nationalist finale witnessed information from 67 pupil teams — 31 teams successful the Model Rocketry and 36 teams successful the CANSAT category.
A full of 37 launches (13 successful Model Rocketry and 24 successful CANSAT) were successfully conducted implicit the people of the competition.
IN-SPACe said that the teams were evaluated by a distinguished assemblage comprising scientists from ISRO and IN-SPACe connected a broad acceptable of method parameters designed to measure some precision and innovation.
Siddharth Satish, a pupil subordinate of Team Antariksh, said that implicit 30 students worked connected the task for implicit a year, and the rocket and CANSAT were designed and fabricated in-house by the students themselves.
