2023-2024 Project – Fortitude
The solid project would like to do the following with the 2023-2024 project to make progress towards a space-shot:
- Launch a rocket on an SRAD motor for the first time in team history
- Fully manufacture the airframe in house
- Improve tracking methods for recovery
- Fully manufacture all parachutes and recovery systems in house
- Design and manufacture our own flight computers
- Increase and improve aerodynamics testing
- Improve our ground station setup
Past Projects
2023: Zenith
- 30k attempt
- Teams first minimum diameter competition attempt
- Placed 21st at Spaceport America Cup in division
- Placed 109th overall
2023: Great Value Zenith
- Full scale test rocket for Zenith
- Teams first minimum diameter attempt
- Build in 6 weeks
- 100% recovery rate
2022: Forward Unto Dawn
- Successful 30k attempt
- Cubesat payload format
- Placed 5th at Spaceport America Cup in division
- 100% recovery rate
2021: Andromeda II
- Teams first successful 30k feet attempt
- Highest impulse motor the team has used thus far
- 100% recovery rate
2019: Nova
- First year where two rockets were constructed
- Seven launches between these two rockets were conducted
- 100% recovery rate
2018: Daedalus
- First student designed and built 30k feet rocket
- New more powerful antenna design
2017: Hades
- First flight on a student designed and built solid rocket motor (Zeus motor)
- WIFI communication between the avionics bays reducing internal wiring
- First GPS tracking system used for rocket recovery
2016: Helios
- First fully student designed and built composite airframe
- First working telemetry system
2015: Hyperion
- Team’s first flight attempt at IREC
- First in-house made parachutes
- First in-house nosecone
- Intended to fly to 25,000 feet, crashed, utterly destroyed on impact