We design, build, and test rockets capable of flight to 10,000 ft.

Our Team

We are final-year project, directed reading, and extracurricular students from a range of disciplines and year levels.

Meet some of our team below.

  • Kobe Noble

    Team Leader

    B. Mechanical Engineering

    Final-Year Project

  • Austin Gogarty

    Chief Engineer

    B. Aerospace Systems Engineering

    Directed Reading

  • Joshua Moremon

    Lead Recovery Engineer

    B. Aerospace Systems Engineering

    Directed Reading

  • Lennox Taylor

    Lead Payload Engineer

    B. Aerospace Systems Engineering

    Directed Reading

  • Mark Batterham

    Lead Structural Engineer

    B. Mechanical Engineering

    Directed Reading

  • Joshua Ferguson

    Propulsion Engineer

    B. Aerospace Systems Engineering

    Extracurricular

  • Thomas Jones

    Control Systems Engineer

    B. Mechatronics Engineering

    Extracurricular

  • Alexander Loder

    Payload Engineer

    B. Mechatronics Engineering

    Extracurricular

  • Jack Fahey

    Payload Engineer
    B. Electrical and Electronics/Mechatronics Engineering
    Extracurricular

  • Hauoli Fasala

    Flight Dynamics Engineer

    B. Aerospace Systems Engineering

    Final-Year Project

  • Nicholas Cummings

    Recovery Engineer

    B. Aerospace Systems Engineering

    Extracurricular

  • Nicholas George

    Recovery Engineer
    B. Mechanical/Aerospace Systems Engineering
    Extracurricular

  • Imogen Brown

    Recovery Engineer
    B. Mechatronics/ Aerospace Systems Engineering
    Extracurricular

  • Duncan Akerman

    Structural Engineer

    B. Aerospace Systems Engineering

    Extracurricular

Our Competition

We competed in the 2024 Spaceport America Cup competition, against 158 international university teams.

The competition centers on the design and manufacture of high-power rockets, capable of flight to 10,000 - 30,000 ft.

We are excited to announce our placement of 16th in our 10,000 ft category, and 30th overall.

We are extremely proud of our first competition results and are already iterating our designs for our 2025 competition.

Our Rockets

We currently maintain one competition rocket and a research platform.

Final-Year/Directed Reading/Extracurricular projects are available across all platforms.

Prometheus

Prometheus serves as NU Rocketry’s first competition rocket. Designed, built, and tested over the course of 9 months, Prometheus launched the team to 30th on the leaderboard. With a weight of 16.5kg the rocket achieved a maximum altitude of 9985ft (3043m), and a maximum velocity of mach 0.95 (325.85 m/s).

  • Test Launch at April 2024 Mullaley Launch

    Payload

    Prometheus featured a technical demonstration payload. Using a linear actuator, a constant pressure offset was achieved within a pressure chamber. The payload featured custom PCBs with software-in-the-loop testing.

  • Recovered Rocket after Test Flight at Mullaley

    Recovery

    Our Avionics stack featured dual flight computers and GPS trackers to ensure Prometheus' deployed its parachutes and was easily recovered. Under drogue the rocket descended at 100 km/h before the main slowed the rocket to 30 km/h for landing.

  • Launch at 2024 Spaceport America Cup

    Structures

    Prometheus featured a student researched and developed fibreglass airframe. This was designed and tested in house to ensure that it would survive the predicted 5kN load that the rocket would experience.

  • Phantom - our 10,000 ft Apogee Competition Rocket

    Phantom is our premier competition platform. With a filament-wound carbon fibre fuselage, its 8kg, 2000 N, solid fuel motor will carries it to an apogee 1.5 times higher than Mt Kosciuszko. The rocket carries an experimental payload, collecting and transmitting live data direct to our ground control station.

  • Pioneer - our 5,000 ft Apogee Competition Rocket

    Pioneer is our 5,000 ft capable rocket platform. Constructed from filament-wound fibreglass, this economical platform will facilitate rapid prototyping and testing of future competition systems.