05/07/2023
Monash High Powered Rocketry is proud to announce that we have placed 3rd in the 10K COTS category, and 7th overall out of 159 teams with Project Valkyrie at the 2023 Spaceport America Cup!
Project Valkyrie represents the team's first complete student researched and designed airframe, featuring new and innovative systems in our avionics, payload and deployment bays.
Here is our team’s full results from the competition:
3rd in the 10K COTS category
7th Overall at the Spaceport America Cup
Winner of the Team Sportsmanship Award
Runner up in the Charles Hoult Award for Modelling and Simulations
We are incredibly proud of our team for all the work they have put in, and thankful for the support from friends and family, faculty and university staff and our partners and sponsors. Thank you to the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association and Spaceport America Cup for organising the Spaceport America Cup. Thank you to our flyer of record Gary Stroick, as well as our sponsors LEAP Australia, Ansys, Aluminium Trade Centre, ANCA, MRC Industries, Nuclino, BOC South Pacific, B & A Motor Body Repairs, Cubic Technology, Lahebo, Swagelok, Sourceman International, Altium, Aft Applied Fasteners Tooling, ATL Composites, Freedcamp, allnex, Collins Anodic Treatment, Ungar Metals and of course, Monash University, Monash Engineering.
We would like to congratulate our fellow Australian and New Zealand friends for their results.
UC Aerospace - University of Canterbury: 4th in 30K COTS
UNSW Rocketry Team: Best Video
UQ Space: Runner up in 10K COTS
ANU Rocketry: 19th in 10K COTS, Honourable Mention for SDL Payload Challenge
UTS Rocketry Team: 22nd in 10K COTS
ARES - Aerospace & Rocket Engineering Society: 10th in 30K COTS
UWA Aerospace: 7th in 10K COTS