From the workshop
Build updates, launch reports and lessons from HiPR's student rocketry programme.
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Five successful hot fires and the Best Newcomer award: Lúin of Celtchar completed its Race 2 Space 2026 test campaign after nine months of development. Our student propulsion team tested the 2 kN liquid bipropellant engine on 8 Ju…
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ULAS HiPR returned to Machrihanish for a third year to compete in Mach 26 Category 3 with Badhbh, the Irish goddess of death and the third vehicle in the sequence that began with Morrigu and Macha. Badhbh was a 2.5 metre, fully co…
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The team has had a busy few months of launches at Ulster Rocketry's Bishopscourt site. Sguaba Tuinne, our active stability project, flew twice more. The experimental canard system operated in flight, giving the team valuable data …
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ULAS HiPR has received the Republic of Ireland's first additively manufactured rocket engine. Lúin of Celtchar was printed by Irish Manufacturing Research for the team's entry into the Race 2 Space competition in July. The 2 kN, w…
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Over the past month, ULAS HiPR travelled north twice to Ulster Rocketry's launch site to fly two experimental vehicles: Ireland's first CO₂ deployment test rocket and the team's first active control vehicle. Feth Fiada, named afte…
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In partnership with the University of Limerick and Irish Manufacturing Research, ULAS HiPR will design and manufacture the first additively manufactured liquid rocket engine in the Republic of Ireland: Lúin of Celtchar. The projec…
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Our February all hands meeting showed the progress made across every subteam. Months of design work have brought the mechanical and electronics systems into alignment, and a newly secured dedicated lab space means the team can now…
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ULAS HiPR represented Immersive Software Engineering at the Stripe Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition, introducing students to rocketry and the space projects available at the University of Limerick. Co Head Dervla Gargan and…
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ULAS HiPR has been accepted into Mach 26, run by Exotopic. After competing in each of the previous two years, the team is returning with its biggest vehicle yet. Badhbh, pronounced "Bive", is named after the Irish goddess of death…
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ULAS HiPR has been featured in Enterprise Ireland's Space Activities in Ireland 2024 report. The report recognises the team's hands on innovation and contribution to Ireland's growing student rocketry ecosystem. It is encouraging …
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Our latest all hands meeting marked the start of the rest of our projects for the year. Members have been busy building their own L1 rockets, while the liquid engine development team has already been working for months. The Mach, …
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Over the first half of the semester, close to 60 ULAS HiPR members began designing and building their own high powered rockets. Each L1 vehicle starts in OpenRocket before being built from laser cut plywood and shipping tubes. The…
Read moreLast week, our Mach 25 team travelled to Machrihanish for the Mach 25 competition, with our rocket named “Macha. Not only did Macha have a successful launch, but it placed 2nd overall in the Cat2 category among university teams fr…
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On the 4th day of EuRoC, our rocket “Airmedh” successfully launched in Ponte de Sor, Portugal!🚀🚀 This marks a major milestone for ULAS HiPR, a team founded about a year ago with the long term goal of competing at EuRoC, Europe’s…
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Today we’re going back to the 90’s and highlighting the fascinating work done by our predecessors in LimerickSEDS, the true rocket pioneers in UL. Between 1997 and 2000 a group of UL engineering students took it upon themselves to…
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Late Friday evening, we had the launch of our first ever high powered rocket, Morrigu!! While the flight wasn't a complete success, we learned a lot and are excited to continue improving our designs and processes for future launch…
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Leading up to our CDR submission to Mach 24 last week, we engaged in rigorous testing of various components within our recovery system. While some of our team basked in the sunlight, conducting parachute tests with a dummy cansat,…
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More meetings this week as deadlines loom over the team. Next week, we'll be revealing what this team and the other project teams have been working on and our goals for this year.…
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We have now constructed the Eggtimer Quantum flight computer that we will use on the first flight of Sionna. The Eggtimer Quantum will control the deployment of our parachutes and ensure the safe recovery of our rocket. The comple…
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Nothing beats a whiteboard and a marker when it comes to presenting an idea. In person meetings continued this week as one of our teams continues work on our next rocket. Big announcement coming soon!!…
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Over the Christmas season, work has continued on our rocket, Sionna, as we progress towards our first High Powered launch early this year. We believe that getting our hands on hardware, trying new ideas and learning what worked an…
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This week we had our first in person meeting of 2024. It was great to see new and old faces who are all looking forward to what is promising to be a great year for rocketry in UL. Stay tuned for exciting news on the projects that …
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Over the last 2 months, we've been helping UL Aeronautical Society run a series of rocketry workshops. The purpose of these workshops was to give beginners the opportunity to design and build their own low powered rockets. For mos…
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As exam season draws nearer and HiPR activities start to wind down for the semester we want to share some of the progress that we've made on the construction of Sionna. Jay Looney has been busy cutting the Bluetube which we are us…
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