Monash High Powered Rocketry

Monash High Powered Rocketry is a Monash University student team with more than 100 members working across aerostructures, avionics, dynamics, flight systems, payloads, propulsion and business. Students manufacture airframes and many flight computers in-house. At IREC 2025, ZENITH launched and was recovered, earning the Jim Furfaro Award for Technical Excellence; it undershot its target after suspected fuel-grain thermal degradation reduced thrust. The team’s Solaris MkIII cryogenic hybrid engine subsequently demonstrated hot-fire thrust above 10 kN, with a 3D-printed nozzle and combustion chamber. Project Meridian won the 10,000-foot SRAD Hybrid category at AURC 2026 after 18 months of development. Project Daybreak targets 100,000 feet with a planned 2027 launch.