START ON MAY 5
The final of the 2024 All-Russian Rocket Engineering Championship "Reactive Motion" will take place in Kirzhach, Vladimir Region, from May 5th to 10th. The event is being held for the sixth consecutive year and has already attracted over 250 teams from all over Russia.
This year, 40 teams from Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Krasnoyarsk, Tomsk, Tver, Novosibirsk, Rostov-on-Don, Ust-Labinsk, and Yekaterinburg have reached the finals. In total, more than 150 team applications were submitted at the start of the championship.
This career orientation project aims to engage youth in scientific and technical activities within the rocket and space industry, to select future talented engineers, and to develop the technical competencies of participants as technical directors, chief designers of aerospace companies, shaping the overall development of the industry.
The championship supports the development of engineering skills, such as circuit design, soldering, rocket flight modeling, 3D modeling, controller programming, and also fosters soft skills development: teamwork, leadership, product development, the ability to take responsibility, and to propose and defend ideas.
At the competition, each team will have the opportunity to launch their rocket twice, collect all telemetry data, process it, and defend their projects in front of the jury, either confirming or refuting their theoretical calculations. The age of championship participants starts at 12 years, where school students launch hydropneumatic rockets and ends at 24 years, where university students tackle complex tasks of placing satellites at specific altitudes. Participants can continuously improve within the same technological program—designing and constructing rockets and their systems.
The championship consists of six tracks.
Each subsequent track involves solving a set of more complex and interesting design and construction problems.
The Rocket Engineering Championship is organized by the Volt Brothers project and the MSU Institute of Mechanics, supported by the State Corporation "Roscosmos".