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01 — The MRS experience

A question can become a rocket.

Ask why. Try something. Build it. Launch it. Learn from what happens next.

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01 — Question

Start with why.

Why does it fly? How high will it go? What changes when you move a fin?

AerodynamicsPropulsionStructuresStabilityRecovery

Curiosity starts the countdown.

A 3D-printed rocket avionics bay with stacked circuit boards, GPS module and coloured wiring, with its CAD model displayed on the monitor behind

02 — Idea & design

Draw it before you build it.

Shape the idea. Check stability. Predict the flight.

Imagine. Model. Decide.

Four students in school uniform leaning over a workbench with screwdrivers and tools, stripping down a motor and electronics assembly

03 — Build & test

Make the idea real.

Cut. Assemble. Wire. Test. Every part changes the flight.

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Build it. Test it. Fix it.

A group of school students crouched around a model rocket on its launch pad on an open dirt field, moments before launch

04 — Launch

Take it to the sky.

This is where engineering becomes real.

T−05Prepare your rocket.
T−04Run your checks.
T−03Launch.
T−02Analyse the flight.
T−01Learn from the result.

Built by you. Flown by you.

A student in a blazer presenting a red and white radio-controlled aircraft on a table to teachers and fellow students at an exhibition

05 — Analyse & improve

Every flight asks a new question.

Read the result. Change the design. Build the next version.

Fly. Learn. Improve.

06 — The journey

From first question to first flight.

The launch is not the finish. It is where the next idea begins.

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    Question

  2. 02

    Idea

  3. 03

    Design

  4. 04

    Build

  5. 05

    Test

  6. 06

    Launch

  7. 07

    Analyse

  8. 08

    Improve

Want to go further? Members can seek guidance towards Rocketry, Aerospace, CanSat and related STEM competitions.

A young MRS member watching a model rocket prepared for launch beneath a star-filled sky

What will you build?

Bring the question. The society gives it somewhere to go.

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