Society of Aeronautics and Rocketry at USF

We want you to join us for our Torito Spring 2026 Kick-off event! 🫵

The Torito Team Kick-off event will give you a unique chance to look inside one of SOAR's most advanced and ambitious programs. Torito is our liquid propulsion team, focused on the end-to-end development of liquid-fueled rocket systems. Unlike solid motors, liquid propulsion introduces real-world engineering challenges such as fluid systems, valves, injectors, ignition, controls, and safety-critical operations. These challenges combined make Torito a highly hands-on and technically rigourous experience.

During the Kick-off, you can expect to hear about what liquid propulsion really entails, the structure of our Torito subteams (propulsion, structures, avionics, fluids, testing, and safety), and our goals for the upcoming build and test campaign. Whether you are interested in propulsion, mechanical design, data analysis, or systems engineering - this meeting is a great opportunity for you to learn about SOAR's Torito project and how you can get involved. We hope to see you there!

📅 Wednesday, 1/28/26
📍ENB Hall of Flags
⏰ 6:30pm

We want you to join us for our IREC Spring 2026 Kick-off event! 🫵

SOAR is currently in the stages of preparing our full-scale competition rocket, Aurora, to compete in the International Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC). We are currently striving for a full-scale test in February to validate our propulsion, avionics, recovery, and flight dynamics so the design can be refined before the official IREC competition in July. During our event, we'll break down our team structure, subsystem responsibilities, and the milestones that will carry Aurora from her first test flight to competition readiness. We hope to see you there!

📅 Monday, 1/26/26
📍CUTR 102
⏰ 6:30pm

Would you like to build rockets and reach new heights never achieved before? Then join SOAR at our spring GBM where you can discover where you fit into SOAR and develop your skills! 🚀💥

This is a great opportunity to join SOAR and help contribute to some awesome projects throughout the spring semester!☁️

🗓️Tuesday, January 20th
⏰ 7:00pm
📍 Hall of flags

Join our discord using the link in our bio to stay up to date with SOAR🚀

You heard it here first, apply to the SOAR Eboard team and the Torito team! We are hiring a Secretary as well as a Chief of Marketing for our Eboard. These positions will start winter 2025! We are also hiring for a fluids lead and a safety lead within our torito team. Applications close on Saturday December 13th so make sure to apply soon!

Make sure to stop by Blaze Pizza to contribute to our SOAR fundraiser! Remember each time you buy SOAR will get 20% of the profit so, go crazy!

Make sure to stop by our table at BullsMarket TOMORROW at 9:00am for some free sticker, Monster, and to learn about our projects!!

Torito Milestone Alert! 🚀

Recently, our Torito subteam was able to complete their first ever cold flow test. This is a huge first step to verify hardware setup, test our propellant delivery system, and analyze how fluids behave in certain components before we use actual propellant.

History is being made at the Society of Aeronautics and Rocketry! If you want to be a part of our next milestone, it's not too late to join. Make sure to hop on our Discord to find out how you can make an impact!

Some photos from some of our recent SOAR meetings! Make sure to join our Discord so you don't miss out on these kinds of events.

Thank you to everyone who joined us at the Industry Insight event the other night! We had three wonderful guest speakers come out and share their experiences and expertise, which we can't thank them enough for.

We also have an additional upcoming professional event on October 8th! You won't want to miss this one - so make sure to join our Discord!
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SOAR will participate in this year's Space Apps Challenge, and we are looking to create multiple teams within SOAR that will participate in this challenge with us!
Your experience is not a factor that we use to determine your acceptance into our teams, but it is a way to help us with team assignments to create well-balanced teams. What we're looking for is passion and the willingness to commit to this challenge. Details about the location, time, and transportation are provided in the following interest form.

Fill out our form in bio, and we will reach out to you with your team assignment.

Join us this Friday where you'll hear firsthand from real flight test, robotics, and astronaut suit engineers about their time within and their field and learn more about them. Afterwards we'll have a speed networking event which allows for members and speakers to talk one on one about any questions you have for them.
Date 🗓️: September 26th
Time ⏰: 5pm
Location 📍: ENB 109
Be sure to join our discord and register through BullsConnect with the link in our bio!