CUET students win Global Space Challenge 2025

Chittagong University of Engineering and Technology (CUET) students have been named world champions in the Global Space Challenge 2025, an online competition organised by US-based Space Teams Academy. 

The event took place during World Space Week, concluding on Friday, 10 October, when the results were announced. 

Competing in the Senior High School division, the CUET contingent — Team ASRRO, representing the Andromeda Space and Robotic Research Organization (ASRRO) club — scored 499.8 out of 500 and also won the best team video award. 

The 2025 challenge featured elementary, middle and senior divisions, with more than 40 teams from over 15 countries participating. 

Team members are Sajib Kumar Kar and Shuvo Ahmed (both fourth-year Mechanical Engineering), Adil Mubashar (third-year Computer Science & Engineering), and Sudipto Bonik (first-year Electrical & Electronic Engineering). 

According to the organisers, the challenge focuses on mission design skills across planetary science, spacecraft design, orbital mechanics, remote sensing, entry, descent, and landing, extraterrestrial habitats, and human–robotic exploration. 

Speaking after the win, team lead Sajib Kumar Kar said registration costs — nearly USD 1,100 — had posed a significant hurdle. He credited CUET faculty members Professor Sajal Chandra Banik and Professor Jahangir Alam, along with MIT-affiliated scientist Mizanul (Mizanur) H. Chowdhury and his organisation STEMX365, for covering the fee. 

Professor Banik, who advises the student club, described the result as a “significant achievement” earned through the students' sustained late-night work. 

Space Teams Academy, which organizes the Global Space Challenge each year, presents the program as a six-day virtual mission led by space mission experts; the 2025 edition was scheduled for October 3–10. 

The Senior division is targeted at high school-level teams, according to the organizer's materials.