Halya

Pioneering next-gen liquid bi-propellant rockets with innovative engineering.

About Halya

Halya (“Hesh-lah”) is a supersonic-sounding rocket designed to break height, speed, and acceleration records in collegiate liquid rocketry. The rocket will compete in the FAR MARS launch challenge, where it will fly to 45,000 ft and recover with a parachute. During its 5-minute flight, it will experience a maximum of 17 G’s of acceleration and reach a top speed of twice the speed of sound in under 5 seconds. The Halya team is using advanced manufacturing techniques such as composite layups and metal 3D printing to make Halya as structurally strong and light as possible in order to achieve these performance goals.

Technical Specifications

Diameter6.5 in

Length18 ft

Weight120 lb

Target Altitude45 000 ft

CompetitionFAR-Mars Rocketry Competition

PropellantsLOX/LNG

meet the team

  • Priscilla Nguyen

    Project Manager

Structures Team

  • Juan Carlos Garcia

    Lead Structures Engineer

  • Dave Laygo

    Principal Structures Engineer

  • Ethan Quan

    Principal Structures Engineer, Airframe

  • Madeline Phelps

    Principal Structures Engineer, Recovery

  • Edward Yu

    Principal Structures Engineer, Analysis

  • Trevor Krumrey

    Structures Engineer

  • Dorien Geske-Wilson

    Structures Engineer

  • Metztli Soriano

    Structures Engineer

  • Sascha Stevens

    Structures Engineer

Fluid Systems team

  • Preston Brinker

    Lead Fluid Systems Engineer

  • Thomas Bowers

    Principal Fluid Systems Engineer

  • Swetha Chidambara Ganesh

    Principal Fluid Systems Engineer

  • Spandan Das

    Fluid Systems Engineer

  • Judy Jeong

    Fluid Systems Engineer

  • Matthew Charry

    Fluid Systems Engineer

  • Brian Higgins

    Fluid Systems Engineer

Electrical Systems Team

  • Eduard Shkulipa

    Lead Electrical Systems Engineer

  • Darell Chua

    Principal Electronics Engineer

  • Matthew Chen

    Electronics Engineer

  • Hou Dren Yuen

    Electronics Engineer

  • Anthony Pertsel

    Electronics Engineer

  • Anchit Kumar

    Electronics Engineer

Alumni

Devin Ho

Noah Dilworth

Hans Chen

Ethan Foss

Bradney Pham

James Nguyen