Wolfworks Experimental

Wolfworks Experimental


While the club’s primary focus is competing in the NASA Student Launch Challenge, we have a secondary team dedicated to exploring innovative rocket designs and technologies: Wolfworks Experimental.

2025-2026

Machet

Machet is the first submin diameter rocket our club has made. The goal of it is to reach Mach 3 with an apogee of just under 17k feet. In order to gain more room for our avionics and parachutes without hurting the drag & weight, it features a very long noseconde with a 10:1 ratio.

Project FIRM

Project FIRM (Filtered Inertial Rotation Module) is a multifaceted solution to address pain points in payload development and airbrake development. It is a custom-designed PCB with hand-picked sensors to perform data collection during rocket flights and process the data through a Kalman Filter for high accuracy.

FIRM has expanded the club’s knowledge in both practical hardware design and robust software practices, with the intended goal of being a reliable and reusable module that can be inserted into any rocket for a variety of payload missions. You can view our docs for it here.

2024-2025

Barbenheimer

Project Barbenheimer was our club’s first staged rocket and one of our first rockets made using composite wet layups. It helped pave the way for our 2025-2026 senior design rockets which are also made using composites.

Squakit

Squakit was a fun, more experimental rocket we did. Rather than using a standard circular airframe, we used a square shaped one! It launched successfully.

2023-2024

Pencil Pusher

Pencil Pusher was the first supersonic rocket we made, built with a fiberglass airframe and carbon fiber-reinforced sandwich composite fins with a birch core. It included a custom telemetry system and flew successfully to Mach 1.4 in 2023 and Mach 2.0 in 2024 with apogee around 10k and 15k feet respectively.