Kingston University Rocket Engineering

KURE won an award at Race2Space, presented for the best team spirit!

All these months of effort with hours and hours of work put in by the team has been recognised by the judges at the national propulsion competition.

Good team cohesion and morale is just as important as good results, and the team has absolutely smashed both this year.

A big congratulations to the team and everyone involved!!!

Mach-24 was an amazing experience for everyone involved! We all got to meet with fellow University rocketry societies and had great fun together.

Although this was a competition, the teams all collaborated and worked together to solve each others' problems. This supportive atmosphere allowed teams to form bonds and friendships, and exchange advice and experiences - which us one of many things that make such a great experience!

Official poster reveal!

We are almost ready to fire our rocket engine Kingfisher at Wescott in less that one day!!!

Today our Race2Space team got to hold the Kingfisher injector in person for the first time, and we successfully conducted a cold flow test, just in time for our hot fire at Wescott in just 3 days!

Stay tuned for a video of the cold flow test.

Here is a look at the custom printed circuit boards (PCBs) for our Mach-24 competition rocket.

PCBs make wiring far quicker and simpler as you don't have to connect and solder all the tens to hundreds of wires by hand

6 days left until our hotfire at Race2Space!

Ladies and gentlemen, KURE presents to you: Kingfisher!

Our bipropellent rocket engine has officially finished printing, and is now being de-dusted and machined in preparation for our test fire at Wescott in just ONE WEEK!

A massive thank you to AMRC and Catapult for making this possible, we look forward to working closer together in the future.

Here is our completed and decorated L-bracket, of course coloured like a kingfisher!

Just 10 days until we hotfire our rocket engine Kingfisher - stay tuned.

What is Tom making?👀

Follow our Race2Space camping to how we are preparing for The National Propulsion Competition, with Kingfisher set to ignite in just under two weeks!

Swipe to see the progress on the manufacturing of our rocket engine Kingfisher!

We are using metal 3D printing, otherwise known as additive manufacturing, to make the whole engine out of just two parts - the chamber and the injector. It prints in layers while submerged in fine metal powder, which is why you can only see the uppermost layer at any given time like in these pictures.

Stay tuned to see the complete Kingfisher hopefully next week!

Our first rocket and parachute have been assembled!

We are now ready for testing both, look out for us at the Midlands Rocketry Club today

Progress on our Mach-24 rockets. We are epoxying the fins to the fincan, and they will soon be ready for assembly into the airframe.

Our Mach team this year is making a fully controllable variable-descent parachute, which if successful, may be a worlds first. The prototype is currently being made by modifying an existing parachute and will safely bring our rocket Chronos down after launch at the Mach-24 competition!

Our Race2Space team has begun constructing a testing rig that will allow us to run cold flow tests on our rocket engine Kingfisher which will be arriving soon

KURE has won the Outstanding Academic Society of the Year award! 🏆

Thank you to for the award and support throughout the year!

Most importantly thank you to all KURE members for their hard work and dedication to make things happen this year! We are under 2 months away from the rocket lauch and engine test fire 🔥!

Can’t wait for the next year as we will be coming in stronger than ever!

Our new fundraiser is live on KUBacker! We are raising money to go to our two competitions this year: Race2Space and Mach24.

Please consider supporting us by donating and sharing this post - link is in bio. There are merch rewards for certain donations.

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Slide 1 - A render of KURE's 2024 Race2Space engine named Kingfisher
Slide 2 - KURE's rocket Basilisk launching last year at Mach23

Tonight we have our Tuesday Race 2 Space meeting.

We will look at the progress we've made in the competition so far as well as reviewing our ICD submission. You will also have the opportunity to work on assigned work packages.

We hope to see the team there!

Join us tomorrow for our Mach-24 session!

We will start diving up the current tasks between the team and be given the opportunity to get started while surrounded by the rest of the team.

We hope to see everyone on the team there!

# rocketry

Tonight we had our Rover Project kick-off meeting! The team had the opportunity to meet up with others involved in the project and see how to get involved!

Our meeting started off with the aims and achievements of the project, as well as an overview of our plans and deadlines.

Thank you to the team for attending tonight. And we hope to see everyone again at our next session!

Later today, we have our weekly Race2Space tutorial!
We will be continuing our look into chemistry as well as having an introduction on nozzles.
We hope to see the team are able to join us there tonight!

Our Mach-24 kick-off meeting is complete! The new team had the chance to meet their fellow teammates including the systems engineer and project manager.

Tonights meeting included an introduction of the aims and goals of the competition, as well as an overview in our plans for this year and important deadlines.

Thank you to the team for attending tonight. And we hope to see everyone again at our next tutorial!

Join us tomorrow for the Mach-24 competition kick-off meeting!

You will have the chance to meet the rest of the team as well as receive all of the vital information that you will need for the competition.

We hope to see you there!

Race 2 Space Kick-off meeting done! The newly formed team had a chance to meet the system engineer and project manager for Race 2 Space competition.

An introduction was made on what we are trying to achieve this year and how team management and work load will be divided to deliver results at certain deadlines.

Thanks to everyone who attended. Let’s start the process!

Tomorrow we are back again with our latest rocketry tutorial where we will discover the chemistry behind the launches.

This sessions will also include our Race 2 Space kick-off meeting where you'll receive all information about the upcoming competition.

Hope to see you there!

We have lift-off at tonight's rocketry tutorial!

Using the OpenRocket designs drawn at the last session as and improving them to get them ready for flight. Learning what makes a successful launch and how to read the flight simulations. By the end of the night, everyone was able to see their own design successfully fly!

Big thank you to Tom for coming in to share all he has learnt with us!

It was great to see everyone there tonight and we hope to see you again next week!

Tomorrow we are back with another OpenRocket Simulator tutorial where we will pick off from where we left off last time and also dive deeper into learning how to do simulations after we modelled the rocket.

These simulations will give valuable information about rockets performance and potential failure points which then can be analysed to improve the design of the rockets.

These skills will be extremely important once the work on Mach-24 begin and knowing how to effectively use the software such as OpenRocket will be vital.

Another successful electronics and programming tutorial tonight!

First taking a step back to recap what we have learnt in previous programming sessions before breaking out the arduino kits again and getting started on adding arrays and functions to our code.

Another massive thank you to Revanth for another fantastic session as we slowly build up our knowledge to get a head start at the competitions.

It was great to see everyone tonight and we hope to see you all again at our next session!

This Friday, we are back with another electronics and programming tutorial.

We will recap on what we've already covered in previous sessions before moving onto more functions and header files.

We hope to see you there!

Thank you to everyone who was able to make it tonight.

We took our previous learning of solidworks and started to prepare for the upcoming CSWA/P certifications as well as get some more CAD practice before the competitions get going.

A massive thank you to Simonas for putting together tonight's session!

Stay tuned for more exciting sessions we have coming up soon!

Only 5 more days to go on our KUBacker for Mach22!
Thank you to all of you who have already allowed us to reach our goal. Any additional money we raise will go to supporting this and future projects!
https://kubacker.hubbub.net/p/kure-mach-22/

Mach 22 Additional funding for the Mach 22 Competition