Competing Teams, Presentation List, and Scores
(see below for winning teams)

Official ESRA Videos

2021 IREC: Kron, SDL, and Virtual Spaceport America Cup Winners

​ESRA Team conduct awards

Team Sportsmanship Award

Winner: Team 13 Carleton University
Runner Up: Team 25 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Nancy Squires Team Spirit Award

Winner: Team 44 Kathmandu University
Runner Up: 5 Auburn University

Kron Video Award

Winner: Team 19 Cukurova University

ESRA Technical Awards

Jim Furfaro Award for Technical Excellence

Winner: Team 68 Poznan University of Technology
Runner Up: 128 University of Samsun

Dr. Gil Moore Award for Innovation

Winner: Team 139 University of Waterloo
Runner Up: Team 25 Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)

Charles Hoult Award for Modeling & Simulation

Winner: Team 55 Monash University
Runner Up: Team 140 University of Western Macedonia

SDL Payload Challenge, sponsored by Space Dynamics Laboratory

1st Place ($1000) ​

Team 35, The George Washington University from Washington D.C, United States, with the Marco-Polo payload demonstrating gimballed laser communications

2nd Place ($750)

Team 1, AGH University of Science and Technology, from Krakow, Poland, with the Space Habitat Research Effectiveness of Anesthetic Monitoring Payload, or SHREAMP, demonstrating the effects of sedation on invertebrates during space flight

3rd Place ($500)

Team 133, University of Sydney, from Sydney, Australia, with the Tetratheca payload demonstrating picosateliite detumbling

Honorable Mentions

Team 25, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne from Lausanne, Switzerland, with the Passive Energy Harvester payload, for excellent technical objectives and execution
Team 6, BITS Pilani, Hyderabad Campus, from Pilani, India, with the Payload for Antibiotic Resistance Investigation, or PARI, for excellent scientific objective and thorough and informative presentation

Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition Categories Honorable Mentions

COTS = Commercial Off the shelf
SRAD = Student Researched and Developed

10K COTS

Team 145 Virginia Tech, runner up Team 55 Monash University

30K COTS

Team 61 Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Runner up Team 133 University of Sydney

10K SRAD Solid Motor

Team 85 State University of New York at Buffalo, runner up Team 35 George Washington University

30K SRAD Solid Motor

Team 120 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Runner up Team 88 The Ohio State University

10K SRAD Hybrid/Liquid

Team 1 AGH University of Science and Technology, runner up Team 25 EPFL

30K SRAD Hybrid/Liquid

Team 68 Poznan University of Technology, Runner up Team 139 University of Waterloo

2021 Virtual Spaceport America Cup Winner
(Overall IREC Winner)

Team 120 University of Minnesota, Twin Cities
Runner up Team 61 Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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