Odyssey

2025 - 2027

Project Leads

• Team Lead: Lachlan Miegel
• Chief Engineer: Charles Herman
• Lead Systems Engineer: Will Borden
• Head of Business: Jemima Harman

Project Description

Odyssey is ARES’ current project and represents the team’s most ambitious undertaking to date. Odyssey will be ARES’ first entirely student-researched and developed rocket, including a student-built hybrid rocket engine. Targeting a 10,000 ft apogee at the 2027 International Rocket Engineering Competition, Odyssey is a huge leap forwards in the team’s technological and operational abilities. Alongside the team’s new hybrid rocket engine, named Genesis, ARES is developing multiple novel technologies such as side-hatch deployment, improved retractable rail guides and air brakes, and a comprehensive telemetry network with custom transfer protocol. ARES plans to host an initial test of Odyssey in late 2026 at the Australian Universities Rocket Competition in New South Wales.