Based at the University of Sydney, we are a dynamic team of student engineers who design and manufacture high-power sounding rockets and conduct novel research. Our team spans multiple disciplines of highly technical backgrounds, and it is this diversity that drives our growth and innovation in everything we do.

We have a proud history of being Australia’s first university-based rocketry team and the first Australian team to enter the Spaceport America Cup. In 2019, we took off to New Mexico in the United States where we won first place in the 10,000 ft COTS category with our first competition rocket, Silvereye. Two years later in 2021, we were back on the podium with our first ever 30,000 ft rocket, Firetail, and its satellite payload, Tetratheca. In 2022, we entered Spaceport America Cup with our rocket, Bluewren. It won the 30,000ft COTS Category, with its payload Callistemon winning the Space Dynamics Laboratory Challenge. We then went on to win the Spaceport America Cup as a team.

At USYD Rocketry Team, we take safety and design quality seriously. All of our projects are accomplished using an industry-standard systems engineering approach and we credit our competition’s successes to a dedication to safe engineering practices. Our goal as a team is to contribute to Australia’s expanding space industry by conducting novel research, facilitating experiential learning opportunities, promoting STEM in the wider community, and demonstrating the technical aptitude growing within Australian universities.