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Rocketry · CanSat

Built to leave the atmosphere.

High-power rockets with in-house motors and flight computers, and CanSats that stream their whole descent back to our ground station. Every launch is designed, simulated, built and recovered by students.
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01Interactive lab

The physics of a launch, live.

The same calculations we run before every flight, from thrust curve to orbit. Change the inputs and watch the outcome.

Flight simulator

Try it · Turn the wind up to 12 m/s and watch it turn into the wind. Then shrink the fins below 50% and watch it tumble.

What it is

The whole Trishul II mission before it happens: off the rail, through Mach 1.5, over the top, nose off, drogue out, split at 500 m and down under the main.

How it works

  1. 1Thrust, drag and gravity are integrated 500 times a second in two dimensions, plus pitch.
  2. 2Off the rail the fins turn the nose into the relative wind, so the rocket weathercocks upwind; after burnout gravity bends the path over until apogee.
  3. 3At apogee the charge pops the nose off and pulls the drogue out; at 500 m the airframe splits on its shock cord and the main opens.

Used in

Every Agni flight · competition apogee targeting

02Track record

Every competition, every round.

Full record
cansat2026

National CanSat Challenge

Winner · 1st place

4/4 rounds
rocketry2026

Inter-College Rocketry Cup

Winner · 1st place

3/3 rounds
rocketry2026

InSpace Model Rocketry Challenge

Participated · Rocket mechanisms · Payload protection · Fairing separation

    0/0 rounds
    rocketry2025

    International Rocket Engineering Meet

    Finalist

    2/3 rounds
    cansat2025

    Student Satellite Design Contest

    Round Cleared

    2/4 rounds
    cansat2025

    National CanSat Challenge

    Winner · 1st place

    4/4 rounds
    rocketry2024

    Model Rocketry Championship

    Winner · Best Design

    2/2 rounds
    rocketry2024

    Student Rocketry Summit

    Round Cleared

    1/3 rounds
    cansat2024

    Regional CanSat Meet

    Participated

    0/1 rounds

    03On the bench

    Projects & prototypes

    All projects
    ongoingrocketry

    Agni-III

    Two-stage high-power rocket targeting 3 km

    PROGRESS62%
    completedrocketry

    Agni-II

    Single-stage sounding rocket with dual deploy

    PROGRESS100%
    ongoingcansat

    VyomSat-3

    Competition CanSat with active descent control

    PROGRESS45%
    completedcansat

    VyomSat-2

    Competition CanSat: 1st place, national level

    PROGRESS100%
    upcomingrocketry

    Agni-IV

    Hybrid motor research vehicle

    PROGRESS3%
    Working

    Static-fire test stand

    Load cell + pressure transducer rig for characterising our motors.

    Testing

    Flight computer v3

    STM32 board with barometer, IMU, GPS and dual pyro channels.

    Working

    LoRa ground station

    Python dashboard that decodes CanSat packets in real time.

    Complete

    Fin-can alignment jig

    3D-printed jig: a lesson learned from Agni-II.

    04Roadmap

    From model rockets toward the Kármán line.

    1. PHASE 00

      First flights

      Complete2023
      • ▸Model rockets on commercial motors
      • ▸First CanSat with basic telemetry
      • ▸Safety & launch procedures written
    2. PHASE 01

      High power

      Complete2024
      • ▸Fibreglass airframes
      • ▸Dual-deploy recovery
      • ▸First competition podium
    3. PHASE 02

      In-house motors

      Complete2025
      • ▸Agni-II: 1.1 km apogee
      • ▸Static-fire test stand
      • ▸CanSat descent control
    4. PHASE 03

      Two-stage & 3 km

      In progress2026
      • ▸Agni-III two-stage vehicle
      • ▸Custom STM32 flight computer
      • ▸VyomSat-3 with LoRa downlink
    5. PHASE 04

      Toward the Kármán line

      Planned2027 →
      • ▸Hybrid motor research
      • ▸Active roll control
      • ▸Sounding-rocket payload for student experiments

    05Skills & learning

    What the crew knows, and is learning.

    Where the division stands on each core skill. Higher means we've flown it; lower means we're studying it.

    Flight dynamics & stability

    80%
    CG / CPOpenRocketDrag modelling

    Recovery systems

    75%
    Dual deployEjection chargesParachute sizing

    Avionics & telemetry

    70%
    Flight computersLoRa radioGround stations

    Solid propulsion

    60%
    Grain designStatic fireThrust curves

    Structures & composites

    55%
    FibreglassCarbon fibreFin cans

    Orbital mechanics

    25%
    Kepler orbitsΔv budgetsHohmann transfers

    06Open roles

    Join a launch crew.

    Every flight needs propulsion, avionics, structures, recovery and simulation. Pick where you want to start.

    Propulsion

    Design grains, run static fires and analyse thrust curves.

    Thermodynamics basicsSafety mindsetData analysis

    Avionics

    Build flight computers, telemetry radios and ground stations.

    Embedded CPCB designSensors

    Aerostructures

    Airframes, fins, nose cones and composite layups.

    CADCompositesHands-on fabrication

    Recovery & payload

    Parachutes, deployment systems and CanSat payloads.

    Sewing / riggingMechanismsTesting

    Simulation & analysis

    OpenRocket, MATLAB/Python sims and flight data review.

    Python or MATLABPhysicsCuriosity

    Recruitment open

    Pick Rocketry or CanSat in your application.

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