Space Race Overview
- James May (RIT Student)
- Yevgeniy Gorbachev (RIT Student)
DISCLAIMER: SPACE RACE MAY CONTAIN NEITHER SPACE NOR RACE
How does this work?
Every Fall semester, all interested first year Launch members are divided into two teams. These teams will spend the entire year designing, simulating, manufacturing, and finally launching, their own L2 class high power rocket. The program teaches new members the fundamentals of high power rocketry, and touches everything from nose cone geometry to trajectory simulations. By the end of the year, new members will be ready to move on to more advanced teams on Launch, like IREC, Propulsion, and Avionics.
What does the schedule look like?
- 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
Read these to learn about the differnet options for airframe construction, recovery systems, and avionics bays.
ESRA maintains Dropbox folders for IREC project technical reports.
Before 2024, a community member maintains a shared Google Drive folder.