National Rocketry Championship
UKSEDS created the National Rocketry Championships in 2013 to give university students with little or no rocketry experience hands-on practice designing, building, and launching a rocket. Teams aim for a mid-power rocket with a primary goal of reaching an apogee of 2500 ft, carry a payload, and submit a technical report for industry evaluation. UKSEDS NRC hub.
By year
- 2024–2025Coming soon
- 2023–2024The NRC teams at Peryton Space faced a highly challenging competition this year, especially for newer engineers who were truly thrown in at the deep end. Despite that, they excelled — successfully designing and launching their rockets on competition day. Many aspects of their designs were highly innovative, demonstrating engineering practices often beyond what is typically expected from 1st and 2nd year students.
- 2022–2023Following the success in 2022, the team tunnel-visioned on a poorly designed rocket. It was maximised for apogee but it relied too heavily on Open Rocket. The launch was a failure, with the rocket swerving off the rail. The rocket was recovered over 250 days after it was launched after it lost a battle against a tractor. This was a huge learning experience for the team…
- 2021–20224th overall · 2nd highest apogee (925m)In our first year competing in the NRC, Peryton Space came 4th overall and achieved the 2nd highest apogee of the competition, 925m. Peryton 1 was the first rocket ever designed, built and launched by Peryton Space. It held a 100 g payload that measured the angular velocity, acceleration and velocity of the rocket, as well as the temperature of the air and the magnetic field of the Earth. The body of the rocket was recovered straight away but the nosecone detached. Thanks to an alarm on the payload, it was found 24 hours after launch the next day.