Static fire T002, 29 Jun 2026
Building towards
100 km. One mission at a time.
We're school students in Anand, Gujarat, building rockets in the open.
Now
M003 Homi Shatam IIStatic testing
Homi Shatam II is in static testing, with 9 static fires on record. In the latest, T014, thrust peaked at 10.45 N. Then the data cut out, and the motor exploded 3.62 s after ignition.
- Peak thrust
- 10.45 N
- Data cut out
- 0.80 s after ignition
- Motor exploded
- 3.62 s after ignition
Thrust is weight-corrected as in our analysis script: tared against the first 49 readings, then corrected for propellant burned. We draw only what was measured, not the extrapolation in the team's plot. Raw data: T014.csv.
Where it started
It started as a drawing.
SRM, our first rocket, designed in OpenRocket in October 2024.
Then it became real.
Ours from the nose cone to the motor: we made the propellant ourselves.
Five parts. One rocket.
A nose cone, a payload bay, the body tube, four fins and two launch lugs.
Signed by the team.
We signed the body tube before it went to the pad.
20 Oct 2024.
The motor failed at ignition. No flight data survived.
Back to the drawing board.
Everything since has been built on what SRM taught us.
On film
ISRA: An Origin Story
A few school students wanted to build a rocket and could not find anyone to learn it from. So we started ISRA and figured it out together.
Our motto
From Classrooms to Cosmos
Students from Vasantiben and Chandubhai Patel English School
How we work
Open science
Our test records, thrust data and flight-computer firmware are public on GitHub under open licences, for any student team to use and to check our work against.
Browse our researchSafety
All propellant work is supervised by qualified advisors, with institutional clearance, and every session follows our propellant safety protocol, PS-01.
Read PS-01 (PDF on GitHub)The log so far
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1 km
After Homi Shatam II comes UnityKM, aiming for 1 km. Then we keep going, one mission at a time, until we reach 100 km.