Sunrlde - Sheffield Universities' Nova Rocket Innovative Design Engineering Society

SunrIde is an ambitious team of 100 hardworking engineering students from Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Sheffield. The team ranges from Undergraduates to Masters students, from more than 20 countries. Founded in 2017, SunrIde has been expanding ever since, maintaining four highly-engineered projects to achieve rocketry innovation through their research.

SunrIde holds the National Altitude Record of UK amateur rocketry at 36,274ft in 2019 and has gained international recognition for the students' passionate endeavours. Here is their successful launch. SunrIde's primary goals are to push our limits for innovation, and to provide rocketry enthusiasts with the opportunity to learn about and become involved in the space industry. 

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To find out more about our society please visit:
sunride.group.shef.ac.uk
The first UK team in history to participate in the largest rocket engineering competition in the world.
Award winner of the Best Flight Dynamics at Spaceport America Cup 2018 for achieving an accuracy of 99.83% at 10,000ft.
According to UKRA, SunrIde holds the UK National Altitude Record for rocketry since 2019 at 36,274ft reaching 2.67 Mach.
In 2023 SunrIde aspires to become the 1st UK University team to reach the Kármán line at 100km! (50 km test in 2021.)
The team won 1st place in the National Rocketry Championship 2021 with a Distinction for the highest altitude in the history of the competition.
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Trips

National Student Space Conference

This photo is from the time 20 of our aspiring engineers jumped on a coach and attended the National Student Space Conference in Birmingham.

Here’s what Zefy from the SunrIde Electrical Team had to say about the day:

“When we got there, we were asked to do a speed presentation. It is an activity where you get only 2 mins to present. Mann and Dana nailed it, presenting on the clock, including our latest launch video.

What was outstanding was the amount of questions that followed from amazed students about workshops and seminars to share our experiences. 

Sometimes you work a lot, and you keep looking for the next thing, but it's so important to look around what you've achieved. Great things are coming! ☺️”

Liquid Fuel Rocket

In an ambitious venture, SunrIde's SunFire project will trial a completely custom designed and built Liquid-Propellant Rocket Engine at Spaceport America Cup in 2021.

Sunfire's pressure-fed bio-propellant engine will be the product of 12 dissertation-level projects from both The University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University.

This is the first time we've attempted to build a rocket engine from scratch, having only used bought off-the-shelf motors in the past, and this step will provide the foundation for exciting research and up-scaling in future years. The rocket itself will meld the aft of our Kármán Alpha system with a redesigned fairing.

Help us become the 1st UK University team to go to Space

Our success in high power rocketry would have never been possible without the support from our sponsors. While this gave us the confidence to expand the project, funding became one of the primary challenges. We are looking for businesses with an appetite for raising their profile in the student market by backing a project with an excitingly promising #future. Do you want to put your name on our #rockets? Talk to us to find out what sponsoring SunrIde could mean for your business.

Project Leaders

Administration:

  • Project Manager: Dana Arabiyat    
  • Technical Lead: Jakub Mech    
  • Mission Lead: Alec Dent      
  • Operations Manager: Louis Garrard

Rocket Team:

  • Avionics Lead: Cedric Vandeputte, Sebastiano Zuddas  
  • Design Lead: Josh Brown, Nathan Hinchliffe, Alex Santos, Emma Patterson
  • CFD Analysis Principal: Juan-Philip Marx

SunFire Engine:

  • Team Principal: Owen Fletcher, Henry Saunders
  • Engine Manufacturing Principal: Henry Saunders
  • Propulsion Lead: Siraaj Rubbani, Tom Aveyard
  • Systems Integration Lead: Abdel Alomari

DART:

  • Operations Lead: Zefy Pissaki
  • Technical Lead: Jacob Lawson
How to Join

If you want to find out more, please email us at teamsunride@gmail.com and take a look at our website here.

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