What’s up in the Rocketry Section? 🚀
Final preparations for FAR-OUT are underway — the transport crate was shipped to the United States last week thanks to @fedex ! 📦
And if you’re interested in what the competition looks like from the logistics side, follow our social media accounts, because very soon we’ll be releasing content showing what’s involved and how the whole process works! 📈
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The past few weeks have been filled with inspiring conferences and meetings related to the space sector 🚀
📍 On April 16–17, we took part in the 3rd Student Space Conference UP! at Hevelianum in Gdańsk, organized by the Student Council to the President of the Polish Space Agency.
During the two-day conference, we attended presentations by representatives of ESA, POLSA, Polish space companies, and space sector specialists.
📍 Some of our members also visited Institute of Aviation Łukasiewicz during the 4th Student Astronautical Societies Meeting, focused on rocket technologies, with particular emphasis on detonation propulsion. During the event, we had the opportunity to learn more about the Space Technologies Centre, see laboratories, and talk with the Institute’s experts and engineers 🛰️
📍 We also attended the presentation of the new R7 “Orzeł” rocket by the SimBa team from the SimLE @simle.pg student research group 🦅🚀
It was a unique event and a great opportunity to see the results of their work, learn about the project’s design, and explore the innovative solutions used in the construction.
📍 Additionally, we had the pleasure of attending the grand opening of Europe’s largest spherical 360 cinema at Alvernia Planet @alverniaplanet !
It was a highly engaging time full of knowledge, inspiration, and motivation for further work ✨
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What’s Up in the Rocket-Balloon Experiment Section? 💫☁️
On the last weekend of April, a balloon flight took place! 🎈 It carried a tank from the company @dopaliw as part of a WOŚP auction, along with personalized passive radiation detectors based on aluminum oxide. We are currently awaiting the test results! 👀 We also assisted with the balloon launches for the StratoQuest competition, organized by the @spacetech_agh
Additionally, we are working on sterilization procedures for GraviTe components. We are testing the resistance of our cell model to the temperature fluctuations that may occur during the launch. We are also developing a design for a vibration test adapter for ESA (European Space Agency) 🌟
On a more “down-to-earth” note, we’ve also had a move - we have a brand-new lab at the @wimir_agh 📦
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What’s up in the rover section? We’re back with another update!
Things have been moving fast lately:
🏫 Open Day is behind us! It was a great opportunity for meetings, inspiring conversations, and presenting our projects. Thank you to everyone who visited us and spent this time with us!
🚜 We conducted tractive force tests on the drives of our Kalman rover. The data collected this way is crucial to us and provides a solid foundation for designing completely new drives.
🔩 Engineering work isn’t slowing down - we are focusing on new propulsion module links. The components have already been manufactured and we will be assembling them in the coming days!
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What’s Up in the Rocket Section? 💫
Preparations for the upcoming FAR-OUT competition are in full swing - we recently conducted a Wet Dress Rehearsal. We filmed the entire process, including rocket assembly, pre-launch prep, and transporting it to the launch pad 🎥 All tests were a total success! The footage has been included in our final report, which has already been submitted 🚀✨
But we’re not just stopping at competitions. Members of our Student Research Group recently attended a conference at the Institute of Aviation focused on rocket and satellite propulsion 🛰️ During the event, they saw laboratories and testing infrastructure, including vacuum, atmospheric, and rotating detonation engine test stands. Thanks to presentations from various student groups, they got to know other rocket and aeronautics teams better and enjoyed some great networking. Additionally, they attended the unveiling of the new R7 “Orzeł” rocket by the SimBa team, where they learned about the project’s design and its innovative solutions ☄️
Stay tuned! 👀
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@faroutcompetition is just around the corner, so we are not slowing down 🚀
On April 7th, a WDR (Wet Dress Rehersal) took place, during which the Rocket Section carried out the full process of assembling the rocket and placing it on the launching platform.
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📍 From April 8-10, Justyna Kościelniak took part in the 5th Symposium on Space Educational Activities (SSEA) in Munich, where she delivered a presentation titled “Inspiring the Next Generation: Insights from organising an space-themed workshop for primary school students” 🚀
The presentation focused on workshops organized in cooperation with the Children’s University Foundation, during which primary school students had the opportunity to build simple autonomous plant cultivation systems - both hydroponic and soil-based. Participants designed the systems themselves, analyzed the conditions needed for plant growth, and then compared the results of both cultivation methods 🌱
The workshops showed that even simple and low-cost educational initiatives can effectively introduce young people to space-related topics and engineering. Combining hands-on activities, an interdisciplinary approach, and inspiration from real-world projects makes learning more engaging and helps build interest in STEM from an early age. Initiatives like this can have a real impact on shaping future specialists in the space sector ✨
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Despite not participating in this year’s Australian Rover Challenge, on March 28-29 we organized our own competition in the Błędów Desert! Here’s a quick summary 💫
Kalman faced 4 tasks:
⚙️ Post-Landing Task, during which it had to perform specific actions on a simulated space station panel.
⚙️ Space Resources Task, where it analyzed two ilmenite samples with a spectrometer and extracted water from frozen regolith using a drill and an external extraction module.
⚙️ Excavation & Construction Task, involving the building of a structure to protect critical infrastructure from regolith, gathering sand, and moving stones - we managed to move them all, including the heaviest one weighing 5 kg.
⚙️ Autonomous Task, where in autonomous mode, the rover had to take photos of tags and then determine the location of four colored cubes. Our new obstacle avoidance algorithm worked correctly, ensuring Kalman didn’t collide with any objects.
We are proud to announce that we won the competition! 🏆 Although we were the only competing team, the battle against oneself and gravity can be just as fierce! The event was an opportunity for us to summarize the team’s hard work and test new solutions 💪✨
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We’re back with a fresh update from the Rocket & Balloon Experiments Section 🎈
📍 Last week, the section leader, Justyna Kościelniak, had the opportunity to attend the 5th Symposium on Space Educational Activities (SSEA) in Munich, where she delivered a presentation titled “Inspiring the Next Generation: Insights from organising an space-themed workshop for primary school students” 🚀
At the same time, we’ve been working on our projects:
GraviTE 🦠
⚙️ the GraviTE hydraulic system has been wet-assembled and fully integrated with the rest of the structure,
🧫 we conducted tests to ensure that our filling and assembly procedures are safe and sterile,
✅ we completed full functional tests of the medium exchange - everything works as expected!
OURANOS ☄️
🔧 we are also developing passive radiation detectors that will allow us to collect data from various sources and cross-validate it.
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