Solid rocket motors, flight computers, thrust vector control and aircraft. Every project here failed at least once before it worked. This is the record of both.
I build things
that fly.
About me
Built, broken, rebuilt
I'm Dhyey. I design, build and fly rockets, and I learn mostly by getting things wrong first.
It started in a field in Surat, watching a model rocket leave the ground and disappear in seconds. Years later I watched Falcon 9 land for the first time and wanted to understand every part of how a system that big could fly and come back down. Since then I have built solid rocket motors, flight computers, aircraft and a CubeSat prototype, first in India and now in the UK.
Almost everything I have built failed before it worked. My first rocket never left the pad when its motor failed, which pushed me back to first principles and six motor iterations later to a CNC-machined KNSB motor producing over 200 N. My first RC plane never flew at 13. I rebuilt it at 16 using the lift equation and thrust-to-weight sizing from HL Physics and Maths, and it flew. The difference was not effort, it was understanding.
Right now I am building a finless rocket stabilised by thrust vector control, tuning its PID controller in a Simulink model before flight, and contributing to a research project comparing five propellant formulations through static-fire testing.
What I enjoy most is the full loop: turning maths and physics into hardware, testing it for real, and using the data to make the next version better. Long term, I want to build my own company in rocketry and space technology.
