MC-1, for "Millenium-Curie-1" was our student body's first project.

The idea was to build a rocket that could go through a stable flight with a full functional recovery. As a result, our main challenges were to build a reliable recovery system, as well as the studies of flight stability, aileron aeroelasticity, and the effects of vibration on the rocket. We also had to conduct a series of experiments allowing the acquisition of diverse data on pressure and temperature at a given altitude. Participants were able to conduct this project with the help of a launch campaign organized by our sponsor Planète Sciences, which is a branch of a larger organization by the name of CNES (Centre National d’Etudes Spatiales), which helps students in rocket modelization. Two teams were used for conception: a mechanics team under the supervision of Alesia Herasimenka and an electronics team under that of Luc Bruchet, two master's students studying Robotics and Advanced Systems at Sorbonne Université. This project was completed by a team of around ten students of all levels and was finally finished after 9 months of work, with help of Planète Sciences. In the end, the rocket had a nominal flight during C'Space 2019, reaching an altitude of 1600m and a maximum speed of 700 km/h.