Competition Project Archive
Explore every competition rocket and its payload as one integrated project. Each season links to photographs, design details, and reports.
Recent Competition Systems
Current vehicles combine precision flight, recovery, avionics, and autonomous payload work.
2025-2026
Jackpot
ZOMBIE + GrAVE · Second-generation airbrakes and a competition-ready flight system. The payload deploys after landing to collect and retain a soil sample.
2024-2025
Pelicanator
WARHEAD · A refined competition vehicle paired with a crew-safety payload that recorded flight conditions and relayed results through APRS.
2023-2024
Shake N’ Bake
SAIL · A stepped fiberglass airframe with removable fin hardware. SAIL separated after landing and used powered rotors for controlled descent.
2022-2023
IDCWTRIN, JPS
SOCS · A conventional dual-deploy fiberglass vehicle. SOCS interpreted radio commands and selected cameras for environmental imaging.
2021-2022
Catastrophe
MOMO & APPA · The club returned to in-person NASA Student Launch. Its autonomous payload located, retrieved, and secured a sample after landing.
2020-2021
81.5
LOPSIDED-POS · A compact, modular vehicle built during remote operations. Its payload demonstrated stored-energy deployment and directional imaging.
Development Years
These seasons established active controls, modular airframes, and increasingly ambitious payload missions.
2019-2020
Dream Crusher
Burrito · The team developed and flight-tested second-generation airbrakes before the competition was canceled. Burrito explored autonomous sample recovery.
2018-2019
No Promises
The Eagle and the Egg · A fiberglass competition rocket that earned the altitude precision award. Its payload protected and deployed a fragile sample system.
2017-2018
FERV
Rover · A 7.5-inch vehicle with a three-stage recovery architecture. Rover deployed after landing for a mobile surface mission.
2016-2017
Vesuvius
PBR · A three-section airframe with tethered recovery. The piston battering ram payload tested controlled mechanical deployment.
2015-2016
Penumbra
STORM · A fiberglass vehicle with active drag control and redundant avionics. STORM autonomously loaded a sample, raised the rail, and inserted an igniter.
2014-2015
Lobo Fuego
AGSE mission · The team focused on autonomous ground support equipment that loaded the payload, raised the vehicle, and prepared it for launch.
Program Foundations
Early projects show how the club built its competition process, launch systems, and design culture.
2013-2014
VAR
Load-cell and RCS experiments · Very Aggressive Rocket targeted transonic flight while carrying structural-load sensing and cold-gas reaction-control experiments.
2012-2013
Ad Astra
Integrated competition mission · An early NASA Student Launch vehicle that developed the club’s systems-engineering and competition operations foundation.
2011-2012
Prodigious
Early competition program · A foundational senior design vehicle documented through the club’s original competition archive.
2009-2010
Tacho Grande
Program foundations · One of the club’s earliest documented full scale rocket and a starting point for the modern competition program.
Continue Through the Flight Record
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