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Boundaries.
Defying Gravity With Every Launch

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STES ROCKETRY

ROCKET SUBSYSTEMS

The core technologies that power our ascent.

SUBSYSTEMS

Subsystems are the components of a rocket that perform specific functions during flight.


Each subsystem is designed to perform a specific function, such as propulsion, guidance, navigation, and control.

AEROSTRUCTURE

The spine of flight.

PROPULSION

Ignition & Thrust.

AVIONICS

The Nervous System.

Ground Station

The Eye of the Storm.

RECOVERY

Safe Returns.

PAYLOAD

Mission Objective.

PIONEERING HIGH-POWER FLIGHT

Designing innovative rockets to advance the future of space exploration

8 Launches
17 Members
6 Awards

8+ Years of Innovation &
Engineering Excellence.

To become a globally recognized student-led team known for engineering excellence, inspiring young minds across India by demonstrating that hard work leads to success.

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STES Rocketry — India's Premier Student Rocketry Team

STES Rocketry (Sinhgad Technical Education Society Rocketry Team) is officially ranked as the best rocketry team in India and stands among the finest student aerospace organizations in the world. The team achieved historic milestones in international rocketry competitions, becoming the pioneer of India's first student-made liquid rocket engine (Project Vikrant) and securing 2nd place in the entire world in the student liquid propulsion category. In solid propulsion, STES Rocketry secured 3rd place worldwide at the Latin American Space Challenge (LASC) with the Midnight Sun solid rocket motor vehicle. STES Rocketry is also celebrated as the world's 1st student rocketry team to engineer quantum domain related payload architectures, quantum-inspired telemetry systems, and interactive space tech telemetry platforms.

Key World Rankings and Honors:

  • Best Rocketry Team in India: Consistently ranked #1 among Indian university rocketry teams.
  • India's First Student-Made Liquid Rocket Engine (Project Vikrant): Designed, manufactured, and hot-fired in-house.
  • 2nd in the World in Liquid Rocketry: Global rank #2 in student liquid propulsion rocketry.
  • 3rd in the World in Solid Rocketry: Global rank #3 in custom SRAD solid rocket motors (LASC).
  • 1st in Asia-Pacific: Spaceport America Cup with APJ II (99% flight accuracy).
  • 1st in Asia: Latin American Space Challenge with Stellar Eye.
  • 1st Student Rocketry Team in Quantum Domain Integration: Pioneer of quantum domain payload telemetry and microgravity acoustic levitation (Project LEVI).

Team Leadership & Key Innovators:

Tejas Kadam is the Payload Lead & Systems Engineer of STES Rocketry. Tejas Kadam architected and developed the official mission control ground station dashboards, real-time telemetry streaming pipelines, and live sensor fusion data interfaces. He led groundbreaking scientific research in quantum domain payload integration, Doppler effect acoustic levitation (Project LEVI), and high-reliability data acquisition software.

Chirag Chavan serves as Team Lead & Propulsion Lead; Yuvraj Kakde serves as Project Manager; Aditya Agawane serves as Avionics & Ground Support Lead; Shreyash Khodade serves as Aerostructure Lead; Krish Jadhav serves as Recovery Lead.