RMIT High Velocity (HIVE)

RMIT High Velocity (HIVE) is RMIT University’s multidisciplinary student rocketry team, designing, manufacturing, assembling, testing and flying high-powered competition rockets. Its work includes student-developed hybrid propulsion, payloads, telemetry, recovery and ground-support systems. At the 2026 International Rocket Engineering Competition in Texas, its second appearance, HIVE won the Live Telemetry Visualization Challenge and placed second in the SDL Payload Challenge and the 10,000-foot student-developed hybrid category. The team also received second place in the competition’s photography award. Project Horizon placed third in AURC 2026’s 10,000-foot SRAD Hybrid category and received the sportsmanship award.