🚀 HERE COMES THE RISE OF THE AEROSPIKE 🚀

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The student-rocket-team "RISE" of the University of Applied Sciences "Hochschule München" is performing extensive research on aerospike engines, developing and optimizing the experimental "SCORPION" aerospike engine in the 2kN thrust class. Besides the ground-breaking aerospike design, this engine will feature an innovative aerodynamic thrust vector control approach. It eliminates the need for heavy cardan joints and engine-gimbaling mechanisms reducing mass, complexity and cost. This SCORPION engine builds as a basis for our suborbital experimental bipropellant rocket "AQUILA" which serves as demonstration vehicle.

With AQUILA and its SCORPION engine we aim at taking part in European and international student rocket competitions proving the feasibility and the benefits of aerospike engines, performing one of the first flights of an aerospike.

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Within the RISE student team several bachelor's and master's theses as well as project theses in the framework of the "Master of Applied Research in Engineering Sciences" have focused on the rocket as a whole system, on the trajectory, propellant selection, supply, injection and combustion, several different testing facilities, the conduction of first experiments, and the design and research of all different parts of the engine. This includes extensive research in the field of aerodynamic thrust vector control without the need for gimbaling the whole engine. Core results and future research intentions by the RISE team are presented on this website as well as in our publications.

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