About us
Bath University Rocket Team (BRT) is a engineering competition team at the University of Bath which was founded in 2018 and is made up of undergraduate engineering students. Each year we work to design and manufacture a sounding rocket capable of carrying a 4 kg payload to an altitude of 10,000 ft (approx. 3 km) to compete at the Spaceport America Cup (SAC). With over 200 teams competing, the SAC is the world’s largest intercollegiate rocket competition and it is held annually in the New Mexico desert.
Current Team
There are currently over 50 members in the team across multiple courses and all years of study. The final year designers of the 2020 rocket are listed below:
Jonathan van Wersch
Project Manager/Systems Integrator
Alexander Ryan
Recovery Systems
Ashutosh Goel
Secondary Structures
Felix O'Keefe
Aerodynamics
Ross Taylor
Primary Structures
Alex Steeden
Payload Systems
Trystan Jones
Avionics Systems
Jack Davis
Propulsion
Our Rockets
2019 Rocket: Mallard 1
Mallard 1 was our team’s first rocket designed for the 2019 SAC competition. The rocket launched successfully to an apogee of 12,270 ft (3,740 m) in 27 seconds.
2020 Rocket
Our 2020 rocket has been designed and is currently being manufactured. This rocket features an impressive payload. Follow all of our progress on our social media to learn more soon!
Outreach
BRT pride ourselves on being more than just a student engineering competition team; we are committed to inspiring and enabling the youth of today in pursuing STEM related subjects in their future careers. We do this by running events at local schools where we help students build and launch water bottle rockets. If you would like for us to come to your school, get in touch using the contact form at the bottom of this web page.
Supported By
You can sponsor us too! Please click the ‘Sponsor us’ button to see our sponsorship brochure for more information.
We also accept donations of any size through our crowdfunding page run by the University of Bath. All donations help us manufacture the rocket, pay for the competition entrance fees, and visit more schools to inspire the next generation of rocket scientists!