RAeS President David Chinn FRAeS at Race 2 Space 2024
Students from across the UK came together in July for the 2024 Race 2 Space rocketry competition. Race 2 Space is an educational initiative and national propulsion competition founded in 2023, aiming to boost the UK space sector by providing students with hands-on experience designing and testing rocket propulsion hardware. It is the only event of its kind in the world, and this year doubled in size, involving 19 universities and over 200 undergraduates across the UK and Ireland.
Royal Aeronautical Society President David Chinn FRAeS attended the Race 2 Space symposium and spoke to Dr Alistair John, Programme Lead for Aerospace Engineering at the University of Sheffield and Race 2 Space founder. Alistair will be speaking at the RAeS President's Conference: Design, Build, Fly on 15-16 October 2024 in London - booking is now open!
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Race 2 Space epitomises the aims of the Society’s Design, Build, Fly initiative. It aims to address the skills gap in the UK aerospace sector by providing students with the practical experience of designing, building and then testing rocket propulsion hardware. This will enable UK students to go on to launch and fly advanced rocket systems, gaining invaluable practical experience that puts the theory learnt in their aerospace degrees into context.