Project Overview
Firetail, or “Wibung” in the local Gadigal language, is designed to compete in the 30,000 ft COTS categories of AURC and SA Cup. USYD Rocketry Team’s most powerful rocket to date, our single stage rocket is propelled by a Cesaroni O3400 rocket motor. Its 5.5 inch composite airframe can accommodate our 2U CubeSat payload, Tetratheca. This leaves additional room for an experimental flight computer in the avionics bay.
Firetail was the winner of the 30,000 ft category of the 2020 virtual AURC. It followed this by securing a second place win during the 2021 virtual Spaceport America Cup.
Target apogee
30,000 FT
AGL
PEAK thrust
4699
NEWTON
Development Time
15,000+
HOURS
TROPHIES
2x
1st Place 30K COTS AURC 2020
2nd Place 30K COTS IREC
Project Director
Matthew D’Souza
“Firetail was created by the total efforts of over 50 student engineers from a variety of backgrounds. They were led by project director, Matthew D’Souza, whose main responsibility was to oversee the project, liaising with external suppliers and ensuring strict deadlines and engineering standards were being meet. Each sub-system on the project had its own lead, who was responsible for designing, testing and manufacturing their respective sub-system components, while also communicating and interfacing with other systems.”
Our Team
Cameron Webb
Aerostructures Lead
Riam Tambunan
Recovery Lead
Adam Taras
Avionics Lead
William Giang
Flight Analysis Lead