Scientific Workgroup for Rocketry and Spaceflight

It was founded by students in 1962 with the goal to compensate for the lack of a chair for space technology at the university at the time.

[1] Since the establishment of such a chair in 1966, the group has conducted practical projects, starting with the first successful development and of a hybrid rocket in Germany.

With the launch of the first German hybrid rocket in 1974, WARR achieved its first major success, which was promptly followed by the construction of multiple test engines.

The rocket was successfully launched on 20 May 2015 from the missile base CLBI on the Atlantic coast of Brazil and reached a maximal altitude of approximately 5 km.

The rocket features many new technologies such as CFRP loadbearing skins, modular connectors, custom avionics and an SLM printed IN718 Valkyrie engine.

WARR presented its concept at the British Interplanetary Society in October 2013 and was awarded for the best design among 4 international teams.

In January 2016, WARR's was one of 30 international teams selected (from a pool of over 700 initially participating[26]) to build a functional prototype for the final phase of the competition in summer of 2016.

[19] As of June 2016[update], the prototype developed by WARR was intended to feature an electrodynamic suspension system to levitate and an axial compressor to minimize aerodynamic drag from the residual air inside the tube.