USM team the first to represent Malaysia in world's largest student rocket launch competition




PETALING JAYA: A team from Universiti Sains Malaysia (USM) will represent Malaysia in the nation's debut at the Spaceport America Cup 2022, the world’s largest intercollegiate rocket engineering conference, in the United States in June.

The USM team comprising 12 students will be led by Vanmitha Athimoolam, with advisers Dr Norilmi Amilia Ismail and Dr Chang Wei Shyang from the School of Aerospace Engineering, and mentored by Julian Chee Yie Jian and Ahmad Tamimi Ahmad Termizi.

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