ITU Gökbörü Aviation and Space Team
ITU Gökbörü is an Istanbul Technical University student aerospace team founded in 2018, working on fixed-wing and rotary-wing UAVs and rockets. It is based at the university’s Advanced Vehicle Technologies Research and Application Center on Ayazağa Campus. Its competition projects span vertical-landing rockets, combat-UAV flight systems and liquid propulsion. Gökbörü won the 2024 TEKNOFEST Vertical Landing Rocket competition and finished fourth in the 2025 combat-UAV competition. In 2026, its Bangu liquid-propellant engine completed an ignition test at Ayazağa during the final evaluation, and the team reported first place in the TEKNOFEST liquid-fuelled rocket competition.
Identity
- Field
- Uncrewed aircraft, vertical-landing rockets, liquid-propellant engines, flight software and propulsion testing
- Name
- ITU Gökbörü Aviation and Space Team
- Region
- ASIA
- Status
- active
Details
- Description
- ITU Gökbörü is an Istanbul Technical University student aerospace team founded in 2018, working on fixed-wing and rotary-wing UAVs and rockets. It is based at the university’s Advanced Vehicle Technologies Research and Application Center on Ayazağa Campus. Its competition projects span vertical-landing rockets, combat-UAV flight systems and liquid propulsion. Gökbörü won the 2024 TEKNOFEST Vertical Landing Rocket competition and finished fourth in the 2025 combat-UAV competition. In 2026, its Bangu liquid-propellant engine completed an ignition test at Ayazağa during the final evaluation, and the team reported first place in the TEKNOFEST liquid-fuelled rocket competition.
- Latitude
- 41.101505986380275
- Location
- Longitude
- 29.021750550883237
- University
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- Creation Time
- October 29, 2026 at 15:42:57 UTC
- Updated Time
- October 29, 2026 at 15:42:57 UTC