Composite | Formations | Vie du campus
The aim of the programme is to enable students to design, build and launch an experimental rocket carrying scientific experiments, within a framework close to space standards.
This teaching scheme puts students in a real-life project situation: design, sizing, manufacture, integration and preparation for flight. ESTIA students carry out the draping work at Compositadour, the school's technology platform specialising in composite materials.
Recent advances in the project
Carbon structure
- Arrival of a new mandrel for draping a longer carbon skin for the experimental rocket.
- Recovery of carbon offcuts from NOTOX, a local manufacturer of sustainable surfboards, with a view to upcycling, and technical exchanges on low-tech processes to optimise their implementation.
- Cleaning the mandrel and preparing the cut-outs on the first skin.
- Cutting out the necessary hatches and openings:
- deploying the parachute during descent,
- integration of the electronics and solenoid valves,
- installation of payloads (including a camera).
- Demoulding the second skin.
- Next steps: 3D printing of parts
This project fully illustrates the ambitions of ESTIA, CNES and ISAE-ENSMA: training through experimentation, exposing students to the demands of space and developing technical, methodological and collaborative skills in real-life conditions.
Follow the project's adventures in real time on the ESTIA SPACE LinkedInpage
