CU Spaceflight
@cuspaceflight
A student society of undergraduates and PhD students at Cambridge University, pushing the limits of high altitude ballooning and rocketry.
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Aquila fin progress: aluminium fins, ready for CFRP layup #rocket #space #engineering #student #rocketry #spaceflight
We spoke to one of our new co-presidents Barty about his experience at CUSF - go check it out linkedin.com/posts/cuspacef…
Aquila - the second stage of our spaceshot attempt Griffin - is taking shape. Below are parts of the fin can, a bulkhead, and part of the assembled body
The White Dwarf team have put together a partial assembly of the cold-flow-testing apparatus. A cold-flow test is a test where water or fuel is injected into a mockup engine but not burnt, so that we can analyse the atomisation characteristics of the injector and its flowrates.
CUSF have had a hugely exciting 6 months finally getting back to in person meetings and manufacture. We welcomed a new committee at the AGM last week and are very excited for what’s to come!
Our Facebook is back up and running under our new committee after a long radio silence. Keep up to date with current projects and society events🚀 facebook.com/cuspaceflight/
Take a look at our current projects! New blog post on our website🚀 cusf.co.uk/2021/04/what-h…
We've just launched a new website! Find our latest update here: cusf.co.uk/2020/06/martle…
Inspired by our student society @cuspaceflight - the Craig family have used the resources on the CUSF website to launch their own high altitude balloon with permission from the Civil Aviation Authority and take some video footage cuspaceflight.com/martlet-1 youtu.be/GLl8IimP9xc
Well done guys!
We're proud to announce that Protolaunch placed first in the science and technology category of the @cu_e £10k entrepreneurship competition.
Thanks @Skyrora_Ltd for hosting what was a really enjoyable evening!
Owain and JJ ran our first ever Skyrora student event last night at our head office. Thanks to the teams from @CranfieldUni @Cambridge_Uni @KingsCollegeLon @LancasterUni @KingstonUni for presenting and coming along!
CUSF have successfully completed the first static firing of our own hybrid rocket engine. A measured impulse of 53,855 Newton seconds means its the largest Nitrous Hybrid rocket ever fired in the UK. youtu.be/RYhfGLZWWco
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PULSAR Hybrid Rocket Test
With the firing of our new hybrid rocket engine only weeks away, the controlling electronics are starting to take shape!
Some photos of our latest project - a GPS disciplined oscillator for use with our radio systems. Massive thanks to @CamCircPCB for yet more great quality PCBs.
Yesterdays successful HAB launch to send three teddy bears into space for a local primary school. Thanks to @boconline for suppliying the helium for the launch!
leading to this eventual "successful recovery" (we were still getting GPS & telem from dart avionics)
Sadly the explosion broke the power switch on the lower avionics, so the dart separation mech never fired, and the whole lot stuck together
Five seconds later, an unexpected separation of motor section and "rest of rocket", photo by @adacoghen
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