Rayyan Samat

// rayyansam.at

Rayyan
Samat

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Selected work ↓ --:-- Sydney, Australia

01 / Propulsion

Liquid rocket
engine

Engine designer 2026 — present

A Python toolchain that sizes a pressure-fed liquid engine end to end: chamber and nozzle, regenerative cooling, injector, feed system and test stand. It produces cited, automated reports. The first case is a 1 kN N₂O/ethanol engine.

Thrust
1 kN SL
Propellants
N₂O / ethanol
Chamber
20 bar
Feed
N₂ pressure-fed
Cooling
Ethanol regen
Build
AlSi10Mg SLM
Details coming soon

02 / Avionics

EXO
Flight Computer

Hardware designer 2026 — present

An RP2350B flight computer on a 42 × 140 mm board with an IMU, dual barometers, GNSS, LoRa telemetry and pyro channels. Python scripts generate the schematic, placement and fab outputs.

MCU
RP2350B
Board
42 × 140 mm
Sensors
IMU · 2× baro · GNSS
Radio
LoRa
EDA
KiCad, scripted
Routing
Freerouting
Details coming soon

03 / Systems

100 km
avionics

Systems design 2026

A redundant avionics architecture for a 100 km-apogee liquid rocket. It covers requirements, the interface control document, CAN-FD to the engine controller, remote arming, and a verification plan for vacuum, thermal and shaker testing.

Scroll to fly ↓

TelemetryPAD
T+
000.0 s
Altitude
000.0 km
Velocity
0000 m/s

Nominal drag-free profile, illustrative only

04 / Experience

Where I've
been

UNSW Rocketry

Student team designing and launching rockets for the Australian Universities Rocketry Competition and Spaceport America Cup.

  1. Vice PresidentExecutive
  2. TreasurerExecutive
  3. Propulsion Co-LeadTechnical
  4. Propulsion EngineerTechnical
  5. Aerodynamics EngineerTechnical

UNSW Sydney

Bachelor of Engineering (Honours), Aerospace Engineering.

  1. Casual Academic & TutorTeaching
  2. Student AmbassadorOutreach

Toolkit

  • Python
  • KiCad
  • C/C++
  • CAD
  • FEA
  • CFD
  • Linux/HPC

05 / Contact

Let's
talk.

Have a project, a role or a question? My inbox is open.