LAUNCH12 OCT 2025
Read the recordVES Mark II static fire complete
Full-duration burn on the VES test stand. Next: flight qualification at EuRoC 2026.
POLITO ROCKET TEAM
BORN FOR
SPACE
The rocket engineering student team of Politecnico di Torino, Italy. 150+ undergraduate, graduate and PhD students researching, designing and building rocket engines and experimental rockets with scientific payloads.
TRACK RECORD
We fly against the best student teams on earth.
Four international campaigns since 2021. Every vehicle designed, built and qualified in-house.
COMPETITION24 JUN 2025
1st place Design & Build at IREC 2025
Out of 140+ universities at Spaceport America, New Mexico.
PROJECTS
Built in Torino.
Flown around the world.
01 · 2023FLOWN ×3
Cavour
Our first rocket. First Italian team at Spaceport America Cup.
- APOGEE
- 3 143 m
- MOTOR
- Solid LSolid · L
- SPEED
- 295 m/s
02 · 24–252024–25FLOWN · MK I
VES
130 mm, all-SRAD systems. Mark II won Design & Build at IREC 2025.130 mm, all-SRAD systems. Mark I flew EuRoC 2024; Mark II won Design & Build at IREC 2025.
- APOGEE
- 3 160 m
- MOTOR
- M · O
- MARKSVERSIONS
- Mk I–IIMk I · II
03 · 2023–IN DESIGN
Efesto
The first Italian pressure-fed liquid rocket engine. N2O and ethanol, printed in copper.
- THRUST
- 5 kN
- FUEL
- EthanolN₂O · EtOH
- COOLING
- Regen.
INSIDE THE TEAM
Who's behind the rockets.
People who design, machine, solder, test and fly the vehicle themselves, between lectures and exams.
- students this year
- 150+
- started by a group of friends
- 2021
- international campaigns
- 4
- projects: two rockets, one engine
- 3
PARTNERS
Their logos fly with the rocket.
APPLY
Build the
next one with us.
Open to every Politecnico student. No rocketry experience needed. We learn together.
Apply to join