Kosovo - ReNova

Vote for your favourite team in the Girls Go STEM Audience Choice Awards 2026 by 18 November, 14:00 CET: The team's solution: Team ReNova presents the Self-Demising Segmented Ceramic Rocket Nozzle for safer space operations. Instead of a solid metal cone that threatens Earth during re-entry or shatters into orbital shrapnel, our nozzle uses interlocking ceramic tiles bound by a Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) ring. An internal tungsten mesh traps broken pieces in space. During re-entry, atmospheric heat triggers the SMA ring to expand, releasing the tiles to va… Video by YouTube channel.