Project TELL At its very first participation at the Spaceport America Cup, ARIS won the Charles Hoult Award for Modeling and Simulations for its technical achievement – one of the ten main awards of the competition. Despite a motor failure and the resulting explosion of the rocket a few seconds into the flight, the project TELL was very well received for its technical and operational excellence. Project HEIDI With project HEIDI, ARIS – in the second year of its existence – competed for the second time at the Spaceport America Cup in New Mexico and made the second place in its category of 10’000ft and commercial-off-the-shelf solid motors with a nominal flight. Project RHEA As a team of 10 students, project RHEA developed the first ever student-built rocket engine test stand in only one year, which lays the auspicious foundation for future engine development projects. Additionally, the first generation of a hybrid rocket engine was designed, manufactured and tested. Project EULER In the third year, project EULER is aimed for the first flight to a height of 30’000ft at the SPAC 2020 in New Mexico. Project IRIDE The focus project IRIDE developed the next generation of hybrid rocket engine. Several test firings with different injector and nozzle configurations led to a peak thrust of almost 8 kN and to firing duration of up to 16 seconds. Project PICCARD, DAEDALUS and PHOENIX In 2020, three new teams started to space career with the aim of launching the rocket PICCARD at EuRoC with the self developed hybrid rocket engine by team DAEDALUS. Team PHOENIX demonstrated a first version of an Automated Guided Recovery mechanism for sounding rockets. Projects 2021 In 2021 ARIS launches three additional projects joining the portfolio of last years projects. In the coming year ARIS will be developing a CubeSat, a Liquid Rocket Engine and an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle....

Project CRATER is a hands-on student project building modular systems for Mars-like exploration, navigation, and scientific discovery. We're solving tasks such as autonomous controls, robotic arm manipulation, scientific planning, resource extraction and autonomous droning. The European Rover Challenge is one of the world's leading space robotics competitions, supported by ESA and NASA experts. We're using the Competition to establish a baseline for future student exploration robotics at ETH. Originally, we focused on in-situ resource utilization technologies, but we quickly realized we need a mobile transport platform to make any of it usable in the field. With our strong background in robotics and experience in international teams, we saw this competition as the perfect launchpad to build ETH’s first student robotic rover! ...

Our mission is to develop an Unmanned Underwater Vehicle (UUV) capable of collecting crucial data for Arctic research, with a particular focus on climate change. The glider will operate autonomously and be designed to withstand the harsh conditions of the Arctic, with a mission length of several days without recharging. Our goal is to help researchers better understand the changing conditions of the Arctic, including temperature, salinity, and other environmental factors. With climate change posing a significant threat to the Arctic ecosystem and mankind itself, we hope to make a meaningful contribution to climate change research and promote the protection of the Arctic region....

First ever student built Rotating Detonation Rocket Engine (RDRE) in the world!...

Although a recent development in rocketry, the experimental implementation of Rotating Detonation Engines (RDREs) is taking place at many academic institutions. Swiss institutions have yet to join its contemporaries in this endeavor. Project PERSEUS aims to provide a “proof-of-concept” of an RDRE within swiss academia.The goal of the project is to build a small-scale RDRE and successfully fire it on the existing test bench of ARIS with confirmed detonative waves. The project will establish a fundamental understanding on safely operating and testing an engine of this kind, which can be applied in future development RDREs....

SAGE is a nanosatellite project investigating artificial gravity generation in the ranges of milli- and microgravity as found on small moons and asteroids. It is developed with an intend to pose as an accessible hands-on educational project while also meeting the growing industry need of long-lasting low gravity testing platform. The three-unit CubeSat the project proposes utilizing a satellite platform as a centrifuge to acquire the desired gravity range in a first-of-its-kind implementation. Under these gravity conditions, the biological payload investigates the response of eukaryotic cells to cytotoxic and cytostatic drugs. As a secondary payload an UHF to S band transponder is developed that benefits the amateur radio community and applications in radio technology education. The Swiss Artificial Gravity Experiment SAGE, an interdisciplinary team of students is highly supported by the Center for Project-​Based Learning (PBL) as D-​ITET flagship project and got selected as one of six teams to enter a pilot scheme by the European Space Agency (ESA)....

Enabling in-orbit services at scale with native AI in space With the increasing frequency of satellite launches and impending space debris regulations, SPAICE is meeting the need for effective in-space servicing. Our solutions can enhance satellite lifespans by 50%, boost their revenue generation by 50%, and reduce collision risks by 20%. Traditional methods, limited by manual imprecise terrestrial controls, are inaccessible to 90% of the satellite market due to their prohibitive costs. SPAICE pioneered leveraging Generative AI and Deep Reinforcement Learning to develop the first fully autonomous solution for In-Orbit Services (IOS). Our proprietary software tools (under patent filing) enable seamless navigation and multitasking robotic services and integrate with existing satellite systems to improve their capabilities. Our software is delivered through a plug-and-play servicing platform including sensors, robot arms, and a computing unit. As a modular payload, our platform is ready to be integrated into any existing satellite, transforming it into a functional in-orbit servicer. Our positioning is centered around being a technological enabler, providing the missing piece to allow IOS to be applied at scale. Our team has developed the world's largest photorealistic dataset of orbiting assets, comprising over 1 million images. By learning to optimize universal reward functions, SPAICE's technology excels in understanding perception features and control policies from data patterns, directly through interaction with the environment. This innovation is scalable across multiple use cases and adaptable to varying targets and mission requirements, overcoming the main limitation of current IOS prototypes, whose design is tied to a particular target satellite and mission, thus being unscalable. Founded by a top-tier team from prestigious institutions including Imperial College London, ETH Zurich, and Oxford, SPAICE is at the forefront of space technology. We're currently validating our solutions through Proof of Concepts (PoCs) with leading European space entities and have an exciting lineup of projects in our pipeline....