{"id":23018,"date":"2020-10-23T15:28:22","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T19:28:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=23018"},"modified":"2020-10-23T15:28:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T19:28:22","slug":"video-euroc-university-student-rocket-competition-underway-in-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=23018","title":{"rendered":"Video: EUROC university student rocket competition underway in Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first <a href=\"https:\/\/euroc.pt\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> European Rocketry Challenge<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/euroc.pt\/\" target=\"_d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">EUROC<\/a>) inter-collegiate student rocketry competition is being held in Ponte de Sor, Portugal this week (October 21-25). EUROC is<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><em>the first university rocket launch competition in Europe, which seeks to stimulate engineering students to design, build and launch their own vehicles<\/em><\/p>\n<p>EUROC was inspired by the <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceportamericacup.com\/\">Spaceport America Cup<\/a> college rocketry competition held annually at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceportamerica.com\/\">Spaceport America<\/a> in New Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/copenhagensuborbitals.com\/\">Copenhagen Suborbitals<\/a> amateur rocket group is reporting on the competition among six teams:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Space Team AACHEN (Germany): <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spaceteamaachen.de\/\">https:\/\/www.spaceteamaachen.de\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Project EULER (Switzerland): <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/aris-space.ch\/project-euler\/\">https:\/\/aris-space.ch\/project-euler\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\"> DanSTAR (Denmark): <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.danstar.dk\/\">https:\/\/www.danstar.dk\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">Air ESIEA (France): <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esiea.fr\/association\/air-esiea\/\">https:\/\/www.esiea.fr\/association\/air-esiea<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">TU Wien Hound (Austria):\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/spaceteam.at\/rockets\/the-hound\/?lang=en\">https:\/\/spaceteam.at\/rockets\/the-hound\/?lang=en<\/a><\/li>\n<li><span class=\"style-scope yt-formatted-string\" dir=\"auto\">TU Wien STR-10 (Austira): <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/spaceteam.at\/rockets\/str\/?lang=en\">https:\/\/spaceteam.at\/rockets\/str\/?lang=en<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1600\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dN4gQv1Dwo4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>===<\/em><strong><em> Amazon Ad <\/em><\/strong><em>===<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/149079655X\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=149079655X&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=hobbyspace&amp;linkId=657d30fb3b908f934c95d12a7eb87dc0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Large and Dangerous Rocket Ships:<br \/>\nThe History of High-power Rocketry&#8217;\u0092s Ascent<br \/>\nto the Edges of Outer Space<\/a><\/strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: none !important; margin: 0px !important;\" src=\"\/\/ir-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/e\/ir?t=hobbyspace&amp;l=am2&amp;o=1&amp;a=149079655X\" alt=\"\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe style=\"width: 120px; height: 240px;\" src=\"\/\/ws-na.amazon-adsystem.com\/widgets\/q?ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;OneJS=1&amp;Operation=GetAdHtml&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;source=ac&amp;ref=tf_til&amp;ad_type=product_link&amp;tracking_id=hobbyspace&amp;marketplace=amazon&amp;region=US&amp;placement=149079655X&amp;asins=149079655X&amp;linkId=ea1dd6da767642076473b783d8663a0f&amp;show_border=true&amp;link_opens_in_new_window=true&amp;price_color=333333&amp;title_color=0066c0&amp;bg_color=ffffff\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><span style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first European Rocketry Challenge (EUROC) inter-collegiate student rocketry competition is being held in Ponte de Sor, Portugal this week (October 21-25). EUROC is the first university rocket launch competition in Europe, which seeks to stimulate engineering students to design, build and launch their own vehicles EUROC was inspired by the Spaceport America Cup college &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=23018\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Video: EUROC university student rocket competition underway in Portugal<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-contests-and-games","category-education","category-rocketry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p34aWK-5Zg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28041,"url":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=28041","url_meta":{"origin":23018,"position":0},"title":"Rocketry: RFTS rocket competition + NM spaceport hosts student launches + FAR\u2011OUT rockets at Mojave","author":"TopSpacer","date":"March 9, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Some recent rocketry items of interest: ** Reach for the Stars is holding the 18th RFTS National Rocket Competition. 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