USC Rocket Propulsion Lab

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Meet the First College Students to Launch a Rocket Into Space | WIRED


WIRED
Published on May 31, 2019

A team from the University of Southern California's Rocket Propulsion Laboratory became the first student team to launch a rocket into space. WIRED's Arielle Pardes spoke with Neil Tewksbury, the team's Lead Operations Officer, about what it took to make it happen.

Source Article 

 UCS RPL YouTube Channel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bk5QAiL41LA?t=001

[Steven Pietrobon]

USC Video. Traveller IV launched on 21 April 2019 and reached 103,571 m with 90% certainty using 81.6 kg of solid propellant. Traveller III had launched on 29 September 2018, but the parachute failed to deploy due to the avionics not being turned on.

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USC Video. Traveller IV launched on 21 April 2019 and reached 103,571 m with 90% certainty using 81.6 kg of solid propellant. Traveller III had launched on 29 September 2018, but the parachute failed to deploy due to the avionics not being turned on.

For the students involved this was a tremendous achievement both in the event and the learning of how to go about making it happen.

A job very well done.

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Fireball - A Documentary Film

 May 23, 2023

By Alexandra Miller and Thomas Rudden

A documentary following the students of the USC Rocket Propulsion Lab, the first student group to successfully launch a rocket into space, embark on their next mission - an attempt to build a high-altitude rocket that gets the club and their spaceshots back on track.

[Steven Pietrobon]

Fireball launched on 1 April and reach an altitude of about 43 km. Some screen grabs of the launch.

http://www.uscrpl.com/fireball-1