Student-Led Reusable Rocket Team Prepares to Spin-Off Tech
A group of students from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne in Switzerland have built and begun testing a vertical takeoff, vertical landing demonstrator called Colibri. Launched in 2018, the Gruyère Space Program (GSP) developed and built a 100-kilogram, 2.5-metre rocket hopper powered by its in-house developed 1.2 kN bipropellant (N2O/IPA) F-100 rocket engine. […]
Published by European Spaceflight on 08/15/2024