I am currently a member of the Propulsion Department, where I am focused on the development of the bipropellant engine Æneas. This project is particularly significant, as Æneas represents the first biliquid rocket engine to be powered on by a university team in Italy. The engine uses bioethanol as the fuel and nitrous oxide (N₂O) as the oxidizer.Æneas is being developed as part of Skyward, an association at Politecnico di Milano with a mission to advance rocketry and compete in Euroc, the European Rocketry Challenge held annually in Portugal. The main goal of Skyward is in designing and launching high-performance rockets for the competition, in which every team from universities across Europe come together to show their rocketry skills.The rocket of this year is Lyra which is powered by a hybrid engine that uses paraffin, reinforced with ABS as the solid fuel, and N₂O as the oxidizer.