Mach5lowdown is the only place that specifically covers highly technical and ambitious amateur and student rocketry projects. Updates are posted frequently on individuals and teams all across the planet, showcasing the progress and successes from early concept to launch and recovery. Mach5 Low-Down also track the records and competitions of rockets that are achieving technical goals such as highest altitude for a student university team. A tips and tricks section for those interesting in improving their engineering skill set and knowledge and a collection of payload user guides is also detailed. For inquires, questions, feedback, or would like to have your project featured on this blog, please get in touch via the contact page!


Founder – Iain Finer
Iain graduated from the University of Canterbury in 2018 with a Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering and is now working as a propulsion engineer for Dawn Aerospace (primarily on turbomachinery).

Iain has spent the last 10 years of his life traveling all around the world and as part of that has experienced a lot of great things space! Iain’s goal of starting this website was to bring all the great amateur and student rocket projects together in one place to inspire the next generation of space and rocket lovers, as it has done for him!

Contributor – Will Austin

Will graduated from the University of Canterbury in 2018 with a BE(Hons) in Mechanical Engineering and continued on to complete a ME in Mechanical Engineering in 2020. Will is also now working at Dawn Aerospace as a Flight Test Engineer.