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Welcome to the Cambridge University Space Flight Wiki!

Visit the Page directory for a categorised list of public pages, and Members:Page directory for a categorised list of members-only pages

Note that this is a new wiki and as such many pages are unfinished. Many of the current pages were imported from a different type of wiki and as such may not be formatted correctly.

Major projects

Griffin I

A two-stage spaceshot vehicle intended to reach 150km in 2022

White Giant

A 10kN N₂O-IPA liquid engine that will power the first stage of Griffin 1

Aquila

The second stage of Griffin 1, powered by a Cesaroni Pro98 and equipped with a custom hypersonic recovery system

White Dwarf

The scaled-down version of White Giant, used to gain experience with bipropellant liquid rocket engines.

Simulation software

All of our software is free and open source. Anyone is welcome to contribute: simply open a pull request on GitHub with your suggested changes.

Bamboo

Cooling system model for liquid rocket engines

Cockroach

Redundant tracking system for HAB launches

Midas

Whole-rocket flight simulator, with emphasis on nitrous oxide behaviour in run tanks and effect on engine performance

Octopus

Software package to model 2-phase compressible flow through an injector orifice and determine fluid exit properties

CamPyRoS

Cambridge Python Rocketry Simulator is a Python package which provides fully featured rocket trajectory simulation

Tawhiri

Tāwhirimātea (Tawhiri) is our high altitude balloon landing prediction software.

Avionics Systems

Project Rooster

Avionics system for Griffin I

Project Strix

Avionics system for Martlet IV

M3 Avionics

Avionics system for Martlet III

Operations

Git and GitHub

A reference guide of how to use Git and Github, which we use for managing software and CAD

Charon

Integration between Git and SolidWorks to make CAD version control feasible

User's Guide

User's Guide to using MediaWiki, which this wiki runs on.

Members:Sysadmin

Notes for maintaining this wiki and all other CUSF services