{"id":13762,"date":"2022-12-05T08:58:23","date_gmt":"2022-12-05T13:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/?p=13762"},"modified":"2022-12-05T09:24:35","modified_gmt":"2022-12-05T14:24:35","slug":"epfl-rocket-team-breaks-sound-barrier-at-euroc-adventure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2022\/12\/epfl-rocket-team-breaks-sound-barrier-at-euroc-adventure.html","title":{"rendered":"EPFL Rocket Team Breaks Sound Barrier At  EuRoc Adventure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13770\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IMG_0077-615x410.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IMG_0077-615x410.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IMG_0077-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IMG_0077-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IMG_0077-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IMG_0077-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IMG_0077-728x485.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/epflrocketteam.ch\/\">EPFL Rocket Team<\/a> achieved many accomplishments at this year&#8217;s<a href=\"https:\/\/euroc.pt\/\"> EuRoc 2022<\/a> Adventure Challenge in Portugal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13767\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/DSC_0263-615x410.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/DSC_0263-615x410.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/DSC_0263-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/DSC_0263-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/DSC_0263-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/DSC_0263-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/DSC_0263-728x485.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The team won the\u00a0 <strong>9 km Solid Flight Award<\/strong>, as well as 3rd place overall and 2nd place for the Technical Report and for the Team Effort.\u00a0 They surpassed the symbolic height of 9000m for the first time.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13773\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Schermata-2022-11-21-alle-16.37.15-615x351.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Schermata-2022-11-21-alle-16.37.15-615x351.png 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Schermata-2022-11-21-alle-16.37.15-300x171.png 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Schermata-2022-11-21-alle-16.37.15-768x438.png 768w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Schermata-2022-11-21-alle-16.37.15-728x415.png 728w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/Schermata-2022-11-21-alle-16.37.15.png 1354w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>To be precise, according to their flight computers, EPFL reached between 9467 and 9596 meters. We also achieved our goal of going supersonic, by breaking for the first time the sound barrier with a top speed of Mach 1.6 [1900km\/h]!<\/p>\n<p>The EPFL Rocket Team was founded in 2017 by student engineers who wanted to put their theoretical skills into practice through an interdisciplinary project. They set themselves the challenge of participating in the largest international rocket launch competition; the Spaceport America Cup, which takes place every year in the United States of America. Since then, our association has grown significantly and brings together young, ambitious and enterprising space enthusiasts who wish to train for careers in aerospace.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13771\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IMG_8761-615x410.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IMG_8761-615x410.jpg 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IMG_8761-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IMG_8761-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IMG_8761-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IMG_8761-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/IMG_8761-728x485.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>EPFL Rocket team brings together about 200 students from EPFL (The \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne is a research institute and university in Lausanne, Switzerland) and from various Swiss schools and universities such as Unil, HEIG-VD and ZHAW.<\/p>\n<p>Team VP, Daniela Faria Carvalho stated &#8220;SOLIDWORKS allows us to transform DIY projects into engineering success&#8221; and &#8220;All our 3D designs as some of the preliminary simulations are made using SOLIDWORKS software.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-13769\" src=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/image-615x371.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/image-615x371.png 615w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/image-300x181.png 300w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/image-768x463.png 768w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/image-1536x927.png 1536w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/image-2048x1236.png 2048w, https:\/\/blog-assets.solidworks.com\/uploads\/sites\/3\/image-728x439.png 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the help of SOLIDWORKS, the team was able to create their components and develop and present an impressive design report for the judges.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about <a href=\"https:\/\/epflrocketteam.ch\/fr\/projets\/wildhorn\/\">Wildhorn<\/a> and other projects visit EPFL visit their website.\u00a0 Thank you EPFL Rocket Team for sharing with the SOLIDWORKS community,<\/p>\n<p>Design well, Marie<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EPFL Rocket Team achieved many accomplishments at this year&#8217;s EuRoc 2022 Adventure Challenge in Portugal. The team won the\u00a0 9 km Solid Flight Award, as well as 3rd place overall and 2nd place for the Technical Report and for<\/p>\n... <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/2022\/12\/epfl-rocket-team-breaks-sound-barrier-at-euroc-adventure.html\">Continued<\/a>","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":13773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5498,5381,5767,4015,5209,5722,5380],"tags":[7157,7158,7159,3925,3931,7160,4332],"class_list":["post-13762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aerospace","category-cad-2","category-learned-solidworks-in-school","category-mechanical-engineering","category-physics-2","category-research","category-stem-science-technology-engineering-and-math","tag-epfl","tag-epfl-rocket-team","tag-euroc","tag-simulation","tag-solidworks","tag-spaceport","tag-students"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13762"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13762\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13778,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13762\/revisions\/13778"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/teacher\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}