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North Carolina State University High-Powered Rocketry Club
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05/12/2026
First we’d like to thank our long time supporters ! For many years they have provided and supported what we do! They’ve allowed us to grow so much as a club and who knows where we would be without them! You know it’s a good post when is at the bottom of it!
Thank you !!!!!
05/09/2026
Huntsville 2026!
What a year…
lots of work, lots of fun, lots of stress, and definitely worth it in the end!
Our launch came 6ft away from predicted apogee, recovery was perfect, payload was deployed, payload self righted (onto a rock), and attempted to dig through this rock. Besides the unfortunate rock everything performed beautifully!
This team has put in plenty of days and long nights to get to this day and we’d like to thank everyone who showed up to meetings throughout the year!
Please enjoy these photos from the LAST launch of the year…
04/24/2026
“Weekly” overview:
Being the last few weeks till Huntsville, the hasn’t been as much to review compared to earlier this year. This will be the last weekly overview so to wrap it up, please enjoy some pictures from the past weeks that show all the work (and fun) our seniors/members have been putting in!
As of this posting, we have arrived in Huntsville and there will be more posts about our competition!
04/13/2026
As you probably know by now, Artemis 2 has returned to Earth after successfully traveling around the far side of the moon! Aboard this mission was Christina Koch, a NC State alumni who has a B.S. in Electrical engineering and Physics as-well as a M.S in Electrical engineering.
Back in 2017 Christina visited NC State where our club was able to have a Q&A with her! Concluding this meeting she was given a few stickers in which she took with her up to the ISS!
With all the said welcome back to Earth and thank you so much!
04/13/2026
Last Friday our club attended the NC Space symposium set up by . Here we were able to show off our competition rocket and talk about what we do! It was a great opportunity to converse with people in the industry and learn from other student projects!
04/13/2026
THIS Tuesday! -> INDUSTRY NIGHT!
NASA, Blue Origin, FRC, etc.
Come learn more about what JOB opportunities members of our club have had! Both current members and alumni will be presenting their experiences working at different companies and answering any questions you may have!
Plan to be there!
April 14th, EB3 Room TBD @7:30pm
04/06/2026
🗓️3/29 - 4/4 Week Overview 🗓️
This week focused on finding a location to launch our competition rocket! Due to a burn ban keeping us from launching at our typical launch site, we reached out to different locations and were able to launch in Virginia!
While focused on finding a launch site, we also participated in Habitat for Humanity’s Shack-A-Thon where we built a rocket shaped shack! This shack was manned at all hours throughout the week while selling plenty of goods that were able to raise ≈$2500!
Thanks to everyone who stopped by and supported us!
04/06/2026
🗓️3/22 - 3/28 Week Overview 🗓️
🚀Vehicle/Recovery🪂
-Launch prep
-Ejection testing
-More ejection testing
Payload
-Testing mock code
-Reassembled payload with new parts
-GrAVE ejection testing
💨Aerodynamics/Airbrakes💨
-Developing Airbrake improvements
🐺Wolfworks🐺
-Epoxying and sanding Machet
-Avionics bay wiring
-FIRM shoe development
(Unfortunately 3/28 launch was canceled due to a burn ban)
03/28/2026
Were are so back… Shack-a-Thon 2026🚀
All throughout next week we will be on NC States Wolf Plaza, living in a man-made shack selling baked goods, drinks, whatchamacallits, and more! All proceeds from the week go straight to Habit for Humanity!
If you are interested in contributing use the link in our bio to donate and help support a good cause!
https://donate.habitatwake.org/team/811192
So come visit us anytime next week!
We’ll see YOU 🫵 there!
03/26/2026
On March 14th we launched our Fullscale competition rocket out at the Bayboro launch field! Despite some difficulties with the heat inside the rocket we were able to gain significant data for our Airbrakes system, including 6 data sets from our custom flight computer FIRM!
On top of our club launch we had a personal launches too, including:
-Mads Groennegaard launched his Iris 4 to get his L1 certification
-Kai Taylor launched a LOC-IV X2 to get his L1 certification
-Robert Gould launched his LOC-IV for a L1 certification