Team Antariksh, comprising eight students and two faculty members of RV College of Engineering. | Photo credit: SPECIAL ARRANGEMENT
Lakshya, a student rocket developed by RV College of Engineering (RVCE), has emerged as the winner in IN-SPACe’s Model Rocketry Competition.
At the IN-SPACe Model Rocketry and CANSAT India Student Competition 2024-25 held recently at Tamkuhiraj, Kushinagar in Uttar Pradesh, RVCE’s Antariksh team, which developed the Lakshya rocket, topped 31 teams to emerge as the winner of the competition.
The competition involved the design, development and launch of a model rocket carrying a CAN-sized satellite weighing one kg to an altitude of 1,000 meters above the launch site, along with the safe launch of the CANSAT and the safe landing of the rocket.
The 10-member team comprising eight students and two faculty members from Team Antariksh, who participated in the competition, said they managed to do so without any glitches.
“The team had been preparing for this competition for over a year and everything went according to plan during the launch as they were able to successfully launch the rocket with CANSAT within one kilometer of the Apogee and safely recover both the rocket and the satellite intact,” Professor Ravindra S. Kulkarni, Head of the Department of Aerospace Engineering, told The Hindu.
Prof. Kulkarni said the team has also developed its own CANSAT for launch.
“The entire launch sequence was like a typical rocket launch that we would witness at a spaceport like Sriharikota, which was a great experience for the students,” Prof Kulkarni said.
The In-SPACE Model Rocketry and CANSAT India Student Competition 2024-25 was held on the banks of Narayani River in Tamkuhiraj.
67 student teams participated in the four-day national finals — 31 teams in Model Rocketry and 36 teams in the CANSAT category.
A total of 37 launches were successfully completed during the competition (13 in Model Rocketry and 24 in CANSAT).
IN-SPACe said the teams were evaluated by a distinguished panel of scientists from ISRO and IN-SPACE on a comprehensive set of technical parameters designed to assess both accuracy and innovation.
Siddharth Satish, a student member of the Antariksh team, said more than 30 students worked on the project for more than a year and the rocket and CANSAT were designed and manufactured by the students themselves.
Published – 05 Nov 2025 21:29 IST
