The Jet Propulsion Championship is open to both high school and college teams. While working on a project, participants will learn about the physics of flight, software for designing rocket parts, circuitry, flight controller programming, radio communications and a host of project skills such as teamwork, project defense, video editing, creating presentations and project documentation. Each team will be able to come up with and implement an atmospheric science project or test new equipment.
Championship stages
- Team registration: September 02 - September 30, 2023
- October passing the test on knowledge of regulations and preliminary report
- December report and session with online defenses
- February report and session with online defenses
- April Video Defense
- May rocket launch and defense of the results at an airfield in Kaluga Region (Russia)
Directions of the rocket championship
The task of the water direction is to design and build a hydro-pneumatic rocket with an electronic on-board system and a rescue mechanism. The water direction is interesting because you can start at an early age and already test your solutions at school stadiums. And students have an opportunity to think about the complexity of separating rocket stages.
Solid-propellant rockets can only be tested at the test site, so the cost of an error is much higher. The range of tasks in the direction is also increased by launching satellites to certain altitudes with the rocket.
The "Open Sky" direction is created for participants who have already passed all the steps within the championship regulations and decided to realize their own project or scientific research to prove that their engineering solutions are the best and safest. Both rockets powered by large solid propellant engines and hydro-pneumatic rockets with high pressures can be created here.