Our Flight So Far

2012

COBRUF Association was founded as an independent personal project in 2012 by 10 undergraduate students from UFABC, led by Emersson Nascimento. Their goal at that time was to create the Brazil University Rocket Competition and consolidate it as the world's most advanced and modern competition of its kind to boost space exploration culture in Brazil.

2013

Faced with a scenario of lack of accessibility by universities to the space sector, the initiative created COBRUF National Technological Cooperation, the first technological cooperation among university aerospace teams in Latin America's history. The cooperation created several teams in Brazil and mobilized the main existing ones. As a result, it generated strong social transformation through the integration of students from several Brazilian universities and consolidated several rocket teams in the country.

2014

Through its cooperation, COBRUF created the first jointly developed high-powered educational rocket by Brazilian student teams, the FP-1. This development began a new phase for all teams involved, improving their consolidation, technical preparation and professionalization. It also kick-started a boost in university rocketry teams creation throughout Brazil.

2015

In 2015, the COBRUF project was made official as the COBRUF Association. Its activities and impact attracted the attention of the Brazilian Air Force that invited COBRUF to perform the celebratory mission for the 50th anniversary of the Barreira do Inferno Launch Center. The opportunity resulted in the joint FP-1 rocket operation, within the federal space center's professional procedures. It also allowed a successful test of COBRUF's rocket competition.

2016

With the new experience, COBRUF carried out an internal restructuring to expand the organization and allow greater impact in Brazil's space sector. Later that year, it published new ambitious goals for creating a groundbreaking competition ecosystem model to also boost R&D in the fields of space suit, drones and cubesats in the near future. The technological cooperation was improved and renewed for another edition, which would break its own records.

2017

In another successful event at Barreira do Inferno federal space center, COBRUF brought 4 generations of Brazil space scientists, 7 partners and 25 teams from 15 Brazilian states for the first official edition of the Brazil University Rocket Competition and the launch of its new cooperation rocket, the FP-2 . During the event, COBRUF performed several historical achievements and developed operational innovations and improvements that would become references.

2018

Keeping its promise, COBRUF successfully tested it's ecosystem model, with the first edition of the COBRUF Aerospace Competitions. International teams developed space suits, drones, cubesats and rocket projects. During the event, COBRUF and CLBI developed and successfully applied new safety standards and protocols contributing to the safety of future similar missions in Brazil federal space centers. Later that year, COBRUF published new goals for international cooperations aiming at stratospheric flights with payload recovery and beyond.

2019

With the accumulated experience throughout the years, COBRUF started its final preparations for a new phase in democratizing the right to fly higher worldwide with Space World Cup and International Space Cooperation and started the final edition of the COBRUF Aerospace Competitions.

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