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Spaceport America Cup 2018

What is the Spaceport America Cup? The Spaceport America Cup (SAC) is an international collegiate rocketry competition. Student teams build a rocket that can carry an 8.8 pound payload to either 10,000 or 30,000 feet. This is one of the best collegiate rocket competitions because of their locator at the Spaceport America in New Mexico. Because…

2018-07-02adminEngineering, High power rocketry, Rocketry, UndergradBlog

Cato Cam 2017/04/29

Rockets are hard. Even when you’ve checked every joint, tightened every screw, and re-rolled your parachute 3 times something can still go wrong. During the same launch as my level one cert flight, there was a catastrophic failure in a different rocket. Just as it was coming off the launch pad, it burst apart into…

2018-03-05adminEvergreen, High power rocketry, RocketryBlog