A huge thank you our current sponsor Lockheed Martin for kicking things off with our GoFundMe campaign with their generous donation, and a huge thanks to all those that have donated so far. The team is still hard at work in the background and we want to be completely transparent with our budget. You can... Continue Reading →
As a thank you for your generosity, we wish to offer rewards for you to claim. Please note due to GDPR, when claiming rewards, please donate the exact amount for that particular reward and email us at ouplanetaryrobotics@gmail.com with your name and which reward you would like to claim. For £25 - A mission patch... Continue Reading →
A large proportion of our fundraising target is travel and accommodation costs for the team, so without your support we won't be able to go to the competition and compete. Your donations will also go to sourcing parts and building the rocket systems; including its payload, flight computers and propulsion. The funds will be withdrawn... Continue Reading →
Great news! Our team has been successfully accepted to participate in Spaceport America Cup which takes place June next year and we can't wait to get started. After the success we had last year, we're really hoping to hit the ground running for the upcoming contest. We really could not have done this without your... Continue Reading →
Well the scores are in and the team have managed a total of 642.2 points! There were 109 teams competing, only four of which were Universities from UK specialising in engineering and space projects. The OU student team were successful in being the first UK team to be prepared to launch and scored the highest... Continue Reading →
After a day of conferencing and networking with fellow teams at Las Cruces, New Mexico we received great feedback on the design. The Judges looked at our payload and asked us about our Science and found our rocket was sound and ready for Launch. We arrived at the launch site aiming to launch the rocket... Continue Reading →
The OU Planetary Robotics Student Team are in New Mexico to compete in the Spaceport America Cup 2019, the world's premier student rocket competition. 121 others teams from all over the globe will be taking part in New Mexico, USA. Currently the competition is in its third year, but this is the first team from... Continue Reading →
The team are hard at work in New Mexico preparing the rocket for launch. It's been a hectic few days but we're very excited! We're hoping to launch Thursday morning (GMT-6) so stay tuned to hear how we're getting on. Thanks again to all of our sponsors and for our followers for all your... Continue Reading →
So, this is a little different from Milton Keynes! It's 37 degrees here for a start, and could get hotter, which poses a real challenge for our payload which requires sufficient cooling to produce ice...but we'll get to that in subsequent posts! So, we rented the largest truck available, and we, erm, kinda of managed... Continue Reading →
A big thanks to everyone for helping us with our crowdfunding campaign. We've been amazed by your generosity and have exceeded our target, so thank you! We'd also like to thank Design Spark for their support, we're very excited and grateful to be working with you. With the campaign coming to a close this weekend,... Continue Reading →
Star and planet formation begin in the interior of molecular clouds. Those relatively dense regions shelter even more denser clump, referred as dense core. Star formation trigger when the density in the clump become high enough to overcome the processes that keep it stable. Thus, most of the material initially present in the cloud will... Continue Reading →
So here's another little clip of Vincent Deguin talking about the science behind the payload for our Spaceport America Cup rocket. Without your support of our Crowdfunding campaign this rocket won't fly - you can find out more, donate or share here https://theoucrowd.hubbub.net/p/Rocket-Rover/ https://youtu.be/571f0kPHwOA
Vincent is an OU research student, and his PhD is investigating protoplanetary ice. Here he gives us an insight into his research. To donate to our crowdfunding campaign and to support students like Vincent, please follow the link. Thanks for your support.
We'll write more comprehensive updates on this as time progress, but we just wanted to introduce to you Vincent Deguin. Vincent is an OU research student, and his PhD is investigating protoplanetary ice. To us mere mortals, this means looking at icy particles, how they would interact in space to form larger bodies, and then... Continue Reading →
The team has been accepted to take part in the Spaceport America Cup. Lead engineer Rob Adlard says "Our rocket is 20cm in diameter, and will launch powered by a solid propellant motor with 10,000 Newton seconds total impulse, experiencing 7G on it's way to a maximum velocity of 600 mph (265 metres per second).... Continue Reading →
