Kingston student space competition hat trick!

I am very pleased to announce that for the third year in a row a Kingston Astro student has been selected to represent the UK at the International Astronautical Congress in the undergraduate paper competition. Final year MEng Astro student James Arkwright has been selected to present a paper based on his final year project, ‘Development of a Desktop Hybrid Rocket Motor for Classroom Demonstration’, supervised by Barnaby Osborne, at IAC2009 in Daejeon, Korea in October. Congratulations to both of them!

James (shown here at the Big EARS rocketry week-end) is the fifth Kingston student to be selected in the last six years and follows on from Victoria Reid (2008), Alison Gibbings (2007 – Silver Medal Winner), Flis Holland (2005) and Peter Rickmers (2004 – Gold Medal Winner).