{"id":451385,"date":"2026-01-27T17:27:20","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/mission-to-launch-precision-engineering-at-upc-space-program-with-ansys-simulat\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T17:27:20","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T17:27:20","slug":"mission-to-launch-precision-engineering-at-upc-space-program-with-ansys-simulat","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/mission-to-launch-precision-engineering-at-upc-space-program-with-ansys-simulat\/","title":{"rendered":"Mission to Launch: Precision Engineering at UPC Space Program with Ansys Simulat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p style=&#8221;text-align: justify;&#8221;&gt;UPC Space Program (UPCSP) is a team from the Polytechnic University of&lt;br&gt;Catalonia whose aim is to build drones, rovers and rockets. The team is run by the&lt;br&gt;students themselves with a clear goal in mind: to build the best, most reliable and&lt;br&gt;affordable prototypes we can. Since the incorporation of Ansys software, UPCSP&lt;br&gt;has gained insights into critical design considerations that were previously extremely&lt;br&gt;hard to calculate, test and, therefore, integrate.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;text-align: justify;&#8221;&gt;&lt;br&gt;Designing and building competitive and affordable prototypes means the team has to&lt;br&gt;work with complex systems with little room for error. This arises the need for a&lt;br&gt;powerful, user-friendly and reliable software that is able to provide accurate results&lt;br&gt;no matter the complexity or size of the model.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;text-align: justify;&#8221;&gt;&lt;br&gt;Ansys software is a key tool in the project architecture as it provides the means to&lt;br&gt;perform structural and CFD simulations. Using Ansys Fluent the team can calculate&lt;br&gt;the drag forces and coefficients of all its high speed prototypes, which helps&lt;br&gt;determine the thrust needed and possible launch trajectories. Ansys Mechanical&lt;br&gt;makes it possible to determine whether or not the structures and materials proposed&lt;br&gt;for the different vehicles are suitable for the mechanical stresses that they will have&lt;br&gt;to endure.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p style=&#8221;text-align: justify;&#8221;&gt;Ansys&rsquo; simulation software is giving UPCSP the tools needed to test our designs&lt;br&gt;before committing to building a physical prototype. By enabling multiple rapid&lt;br&gt;iterations to confirm our predictions and structural choices Ansys makes it possible&lt;br&gt;for the team to be confident that the designs will work as desired without unexpected&lt;br&gt;events. Moreover, having hands-on experience with multiple Ansys tools has&lt;br&gt;developed the team&rsquo;s members into industry-ready engineers.&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-451385","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-aerospace-engineering-1","topic-tag-rocket","topic-tag-satellite","topic-tag-soft-robotics","topic-tag-space-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27786"],"_bbp_topic_id":["451385"],"_bbp_subscription":["644986","5478"],"_bbp_author_ip":["139.47.118.66"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["451440"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["451440"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2026-01-28 12:35:01"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_engagement":["644986","5478"],"_btv_view_count":["178"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_likes_count":["1"]},"test":"marketingupcprogram-space"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/451385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/451385\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}