Overview
Australia’s first student-built rocket to enter Spaceport America Cup in 2019, where it won the 10,000 ft Category .
Project Details
Silvereye was the first ever rocket built by an Australian university student led team to reach 10,000 ft and the first Australian university built rocket to enter Spaceport America Cup. After a successful launch with nominal flight sequences, Silvereye reached an altitude of 10,027 ft, taking out first place in the 10,000 ft COTS category at SAC 2019. This was an extraordinary feat from our team, who worked tirelessly on the design, construction and testing. Silvereye features a light weight composite airframe and is driven by a commercial M class motor producing 2499.2 N of thrust at lift off. Our avionics bay carries the flight computers use to control our specially designed dual deployment recovery system and also features a pair of onboard cameras.
Fast Facts
Competition Finishes
1st Place – SAC 2019
2nd Place – AURC 2019
Final Altitude
10,027 ft AGL
Airframe Length
3.0 metres
Airframe Diameter
0.150
Metres
Motor
Cesaroni M1590
Peak Thrust
2499 N
Total Impulse
7544 Ns
Burn time
4.7 seconds
Maximum Velocity
Mach 0.77
256 m/s
Total Flights
4
2 Test, 2 Competition
