Minho Aerospace Students' Team (MAST)
Minho Aerospace Students’ Team (MAST) is a University of Minho student aerospace organization founded in 2024, with rocketry and CubeSat projects based at Azurém Campus in Guimarães. Its DAEDALUS division developed MIRAGE, a 2.56-metre experimental rocket with student-developed active control, onboard computing, sensors and parachute recovery. Fifty-two students from multiple engineering and applied-statistics disciplines contributed to the 2026 project. MIRAGE launched at EuRoC 2026, reached approximately 3,000 metres and was recovered, making MAST the first Portuguese team to launch and recover a rocket on its EuRoC debut. Its separate AURORA CubeSat project remains described by the team as undergoing ground validation.
Identity
- Field
- Student rocketry, propulsion, CubeSat development, and aerospace systems
- Name
- Minho Aerospace Students' Team (MAST)
- Region
- EU
- Status
- active
Details
- Description
- Minho Aerospace Students’ Team (MAST) is a University of Minho student aerospace organization founded in 2024, with rocketry and CubeSat projects based at Azurém Campus in Guimarães. Its DAEDALUS division developed MIRAGE, a 2.56-metre experimental rocket with student-developed active control, onboard computing, sensors and parachute recovery. Fifty-two students from multiple engineering and applied-statistics disciplines contributed to the 2026 project. MIRAGE launched at EuRoC 2026, reached approximately 3,000 metres and was recovered, making MAST the first Portuguese team to launch and recover a rocket on its EuRoC debut. Its separate AURORA CubeSat project remains described by the team as undergoing ground validation.
- Latitude
- 41.45035
- Location
- Longitude
- -8.293852
- University
Links
- Website
- https://mast.pt/
Assets & Meta
- Creation Time
- July 31, 2026 at 06:51:02 UTC
- Updated Time
- October 29, 2026 at 15:52:05 UTC