History
2023
Ukrainian rocket modellers have made it into the TOP 10 in every class by the results of the World Cup. Notably, Rodion Struzman (Dnipro) claimed victory in the S6A model class.
2023
Despite a limited team size, Ukrainian rocket modellers achieved remarkable success at the World Championship in the USA, winning 6 gold medals, 3 silver medals, and 5 bronze medals. Furthermore, the Ukrainian junior team achieved second place in the unofficial overall team standings.
2023
The third national spacemodelling competition Noosphere Space Games. Senior Edition took place. Participants up to the age of 24 competed in a mission to deliver a rover to another planet and raise the flag of Ukraine. The winner of the additional nomination Bogdan Borovyk earned an internship opportunity with the aerospace company Flight Control Propulsion.
2022
Despite the ongoing war and restrictions on practical flight training, Ukrainian rocket modellers have represented our country at international competitions. For the first time in history, they achieved first place in 3 out of 5 model classes. Their outstanding performance earned Ukraine a total of 6 awards out of 15 possible. Specifically, in class S4A - 1st place Ihor Volkanov (Dnipro) and 3rd place Rodion Struzman (Dnipro); in class S7 - 1st place Serhii Trush (Nizhyn) and 3rd place Oleksandr Radchenko (Nizhyn); in class S8P - 1st place Oleksandr Radchenko (Nizhyn); in class S9A - 2nd place Ihor Volkanov (Dnipro).
2022
The Fédération Aéronautique Internationale (FAI) has supported Ukraine and suspended the membership of russia and belarus because of russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
2021
The 4th World Championship, the highest level of international competition, was successfully organized and hosted in Buzău, Romania, with the help of the CupNavigator scoring program.
2021
A milestone for Ukrainian spacemodelling! The 30th Ukrainian spacemodelling Championship took place, bringing together 57 rocket modellers (both adults and juniors) from 10 regions of the country.
2020
The traditional Ukrainian spacemodelling championship was held, overcoming the difficulties caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The championship brought together 44 participants from 8 regions of Ukraine.
2019
The unique online scoring software CupNavigator developed by the NGO “Association Noosphere” in partnership with the Spacemodelling Sport Federation of Ukraine for organizing and holding competitions in spacemodelling, was officially used at the European Championship in Romania.
2019
Spacemodelling Sport Federation of Ukraine together with the Association Noosphere, organized the second competition of the Ukraine Rocketry Challenge. The nine teams from different regions had participated in the competition.
2018
The Ukrainian team won 6 awards at the World Championships in Poland. In the individual competitions: 1st place in the S3A class - Maksym Lavrynenko, 1st place in the S1A class (juniors) - Ihor Hladkyi, 1st place in the additional S2/P class – Radchenko Oleksandr and 2nd place in the S1B model class - Ihor Volkanov. In the team competitions, 3 bronze medals.
2017
The European Championship in Poland brought our team 7 awards: in the individual competition - 3 bronze medals; in the team competition - 2 silver and 2 bronze medals.
2017
The team from Ukraine takes part in the Team America Rocketry Challenge for the first time. In the additional competition - «balsa glider competitions» - our team showed the best result!
2016
With the support of the Noosphere, Ukraine held the World Spacemodelling Championship for the first time.
2015
According to the results of the European Championships, which was held in Ukraine with the support of Noosphere, the national team of Ukraine was crowned the absolute leader, winning 27 medals: 14 gold, 6 silver and 7 bronze.
2014
The largest Ukrainian national team over its history – 27 members from 7 regions of Ukraine.
2014
Ukraine won the right to host 2016 World Championship for space models. The right to hold the World Championsip was awarded to us and our partner Noosphere company at the FAI Plenary Meeting in Lausanne.
2013
Our sportsmen won 6 awards: in the team competition seniors won the 1st place in S1B class, juniors won the 2nd place in S8D class and the 3rd place in S6A class. In the individual competition Pavel Vysotskiy (Zhytomir) won the 1st place in S6A class for juniors, Sergey Shulyak (Nizhyn) won the 3rd place in S3A class for seniors.
2013
Ukraine won the right to host the 2015 European Championship for space models. The Federation presented Ukraine at FAI Plenary Meeting along with our partner Noosphere.
2010
At the World Championship in Serbia our rocketry modelling sportsmen won 1st place in S9A class, 3rd place in S6A and S9A in the team competitions; in the individual competition Roman Taran from Dnipropetrovsk won the 2nd place.
Spacemodelling Sport Federation of Ukraine was established at the constituent meeting of model rocketry enthusiasts.
2006
Ukrainian national junior team won the biggest number of awards ever – 7 medals at the World Championship in Baikonur (Kazakhstan). National team awards: Dmitriy Lyakh (Shostka) won the 1st place and Sergey Smirnov (Ivano-Frankivs'k) won the 3rd place in S3A class. Dmitriy Smolyakov (Dnipropetrovsk) won the 1st place and Sergey Smirniv (Ivano-Frankivsk) won the 2nd place in S4A class. Alexander Lashko (Dnipropetrovsk) won the 1st place in S7 class; Sergey Smirnov (Ivano-Frankivsk) won the 3rd place in S9A. National team also won the 1st team place in S3A, S4A, S9A and S5C classes.
Igor Galchenko (aged 11) from Dnipropetrovsk became the youngest member of the Ukrainian national team.
National team's participation in the World Championship in Slovakia brought us the 1st place in the team competition in S1A class. Anatoliy Volkanov from Dnipropetrovsk also won the 2nd place in the individual competition in S1A class.
Yangel Cup competitions were included into the FAI Sporting Calendar as a stage of the World Cup.
The smallest national team of Ukraine represented by Yuriy Gapon (Shostka) competed at the World Championship in Slovenia.
National team of Ukraine participated in the European Championship in Slovakia. Yuriy Gapon (Shostka) won silver medal in S5C class. National junior team won the 3rd team place in S6A and A3A classes.
Juniors and seniors participated in the World Championship in Poland.
For the first time juniors and seniors were included into the Ukrainian national team.
Ukrainians won 3 awards in the individual event: Maxim Dudka (Dnipropetrovsk), junior, won the 2nd place in S6A class. Yuriy Gapon (Shostka), senior, won the 2nd place in S5C class, Alexander Ageyev (Dnipropetrovsk), junior, won the 3rd place in S7 class.
The first Championship of independent Ukraine was held in Kakhovka town.
Igor Volkanov (Dnipropetrovsk) became the first world champion from Ukraine. Igor also won the first silver award in S4A class.
Spacemodelling Federation of Ukraine was established at the seminar for spacemodelling sport specialists in Kiev.
The first World Championship for space models was held in Yugoslavia.
Rules for the first spacemodelling competitions were set out. International Aeronautical Federation (FAI) still using them nowadays.
Friedrich Zander, a scientist, inventor, one of the pioneers of rocketry, proposed to arrange competitions in a few disciplines: altitude flights, duration flights and airplane flight with a rocket.
First book about the models. Aston V.G., "Models of flying cars and the ways to design and build them".
2023
The use of the second-generation online scoring system eNavigator has contributed to the successful organization and holding of the World Championship in the USA.
2023
The fourth national spacemodelling competition, Noosphere Space Games: Middle Edition, took place with participants competing in a mission to launch and assemble a modular space station in orbit. Alongside the prize fund, winners had the opportunity of a technological tour of Dnipro and a chance to meet with experts from leading space companies.
2022
The second virtual spacemodelling competition Noosphere Space Games. Middle Edition was held and has drawn significant participation of over 850 schoolchildren and students under the age of 18.
2022
Due to the lack of opportunity to hold spacemodelling competitions because of the flight restrictions imposed by the ongoing war, the NGO “Association Noosphere” in collaboration with the Spacemodelling Sport Federation of Ukraine, initiated the Noosphere Space Games (NSG), a virtual spacemodelling competition. The competition attracted 148 teams, all vying for a total prize pool of $1,000.
2021
The Spacemodelling Sport Federation of Ukraine, in partnership with the NGO “Association Noosphere,” set an all-Ukrainian record for the largest simultaneous launch of rocket models. At the designated time, 447 of the 500 models soared into the sky together. This record was officially registered by the National Register of Records of Ukraine.
2021
The postponed European Championship took place in Buzău, Romania. The Ukrainian team of 24 participants achieved remarkable success, winning a total of 15 medals, including 3 gold, 5 silver, and 7 bronze.
2021
The third annual Ukraine Rocketry Challenge was held. The popularity of the STEM direction of spacemodelling in Ukraine continued to grow, with a record 17 teams participating in the competition. The participants were building rocket models inspired by the Firefly Alpha rocket.
2020
The first virtual spacemodelling competition, "World Space Modeling Virtual Open Meet", was successfully held using the online system CupNavigator.
2019
At the European Championships in Romania, our national team won 13 awards: 3 gold, 7 silver, and 3 bronze medals. In the final medal ranking, our team won the third team place. Maksym Lavrynenko wins in the S3A class for the second year in a row.
2019
Near Austin, the US, the first Firefly International Rocketry Event was held as a Ukraine-USA match. Competitions included classes of FAI models that were previously absent from the international competitions S6A/P, S12A/P and the familiar but modified classes S2/P, S7, S8E/P.
2018
With the support of the Association Noosphere, Ukraine hosts the first competition of the Ukraine Rocketry Challenge.
2017
The representatives of the Spacemodelling Sport Federation of Ukraine take part in the International Rocketry Challenge for the first time.
2016
At the World Championship in Ukraine, our national team won 13 medals: 5 gold medals, 5 silver medals and 3 bronze medals.
2015
Noosphere, together with the FRMSU, are introducing an online scoring system for international spacemodelling competitions for the first time.
2015
Thanks to the support of Noosphere, the European Championship for Space Models for the first time hosted in Ukraine.
2014
Ukrainian team won 9 awards at the World Championship in Bulgaria: 2 gold medals, 6 silver medals and 1 bronze. Our Junior team also took second place in the team competition.
Spacemodelling Sport Federation of Ukraine became a member of Public Council under the Ukrainian Ministry of Youth and Sport.
2013
Thanks to the support of Noosphere the full national team of juniors and seniors participated in the European Championship in Bulgaria for the first time.
2012
World Championship in Slovakia brought us 8 awards: in the team competition – 3 golden medals in S1A, S3A, S4A classes. In the individual competition Kiril Protsenko (Dnipropetrovsk) won the 2nd place, Boris Olifirov (Dnipropetrovsk) won the 3rd place in S1A and S3A classes; Kiril Protsenko and Roman Taran won the 3rd place in S4A class.
For the first time at the international competitions we started to use electronic altimeters instead of optical angle-measuring instruments to measure rocket flight height.
Spacemodelling Sport Federation of Ukraine was granted the official status of All-Ukrainian public organization.
2007
At the First Asian Championship in Kazakhstan our national team won awards. Denis Khmel got the 1st place in the individual competition in S7 class and the 2nd in S6A class; Denis Pridannikov (Nizhyn) won the 1st place in S9A class. We also won the 1st team place in S9A class; the 2nd team place in S4A, S6A and S7 classes.
Roman Kolisnichenko from Dnipropetrovsk became the first two-time world champion in S7 and S4A classes.
2004
Participating in the World Championship in Poland we yielded the following results. S4A class: the 1st place in the team competition; Roman Kolisnichenko (Dnipropetrovsk) won the 1st place in the individual competiton, Boris Kaplun (Dnipropetrovsk) won the 3rd place. S5B class: Denis Khmel (Nizhyn) won the 1st place in the individual competiton. S7 class: Roman Kolisnichenko (Dnipropetrovsk) won the 1st place and Dmitriy Smolyakov (Dnepropetrovsk) won the 2nd place in the same class.
Participating in the World Championship in Romania national team won 5 awards and became the 1st in the team competition. Ukrainian team was the smallest at the Champiohship and consisted of 3 persons.
In the team competition we won medals in S3A, S4B and S6A classes; in the individual competition Alexey Matveyev (Dnipropetrovsk) won the 1st place in S3A class, Anatoliy Volkanov (Dnipropetrovsk) won the 2nd place in S4B class.
1997
Ukrainian national team participated in the First World Air Games in Turkey.
In the team competition Ukrainian team became third.
Our modellers won 4 medals in the team competition: 1st place in S4A class – team members: Yuriy Gapon (Shostka), Pavel Vysotskiy (Zhytomir), Igor Volkanov (Dnipropetrovsk); 2nd place in S5C class – team members: Yuriy Gapon (Shostka), Alexander Gerasimenko (Sumy Region), Pavel Vysotskiy (Zhytomir); 2nd team place in S7 class – team members: Alexander Pogrebnyak (Khust), Alexander Ageyev (Dnipropetrovsk), Alexander Gerasimenko (Sumy Region). Ukrainian national team also won 1 medal in the individual competition: 1st place – Igor Volkanov in S4A class.
National team participated in the European Championship in Romania. Our modellers won 5 awards in the individual competition.
Igor Volkanov (Dnipropetrovsk) won the 1st place in S6A and S3A classes, Yuriy Gapon (Shostka) won the 2nd place in S1B class and Igor Volkanov also won the 3rd place in S1B class.
Ukrainian national team made their debut at the international competitions – the World Championship in the USA.
Vladimir Barysh (Shostka) became the silver medalist in S8E class.
Yugoslavia hosted the first European Championship for space models.
International Aeronautical Federation (FAI) acknowledged space modelling as a type of technical sport.
Prominent scientist Konstantin Tsyolkovskiy in his open letter advised inventors to create "jet" toys.
The first championships for flying models were held in Moscow.