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- January through October: Learn how a rocket works, begin design
- November: Define requirements and identify design candidates for Preliminary Design Review
- December: Order long-lead or well-known components
- February: Finalize design for Critical Design Review
- March - April: Build and test
- May: Launch
Resources
Guides
Launch has 2 copies of Modern High Power Rocketry 2
IREC Technical Reports
You can read these reports to get ideas for your own rockets.
ESRA maintains Dropbox folders for IREC project technical reports.
Before 2024, a community member maintains a shared Google Drive folder.