Ad Astra Per Icarus
Competition Launch Vehicle Goals: Design, build, and fly a launch vehicle carrying a capsule of "Martian regolith" to an altitude of 3,000 ft AGL and deploy the payload at an altitude of 1,000 ft AGL during descent.
Autonomous Ground Support Equipment Requirements: Develop an autonomous ground support equipment (AGSE) capable of acquiring the payload capsule, depositing it in the launch vehicle, raising the launch vehicle to 5 degrees off vertical, then inserting a motor igniter into the rocket for launch.
Fall 2014 -Present
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Centennial Challenges Office
Student Launch/Mars Ascent Vehicle Challenge 2015
Team Projects
Ongoing Projects
​Project Goals: Achieve the goals of the Carmack Prize. Launch a rocket to 100,000 ft, provide telementry and GPS data of the flight, and recover the rocket within 24 hours of launch. A successful flight by our team will be the first conducted by an entirely student-driven group. Our emphasis for the mission will be heavy-utilization of commercial off-the-shelf parts to minimze R&D costs and time.
Spring 2015 - Future
100K ft AGL Rocket Flight
Codename: Icarus V
Future Goals
​Achieve the goals of the Carmack Prize. Launch a rocket to 100,000 ft, provide telementry and GPS data of the flight, and recover the rocket within 24 hours of launch. A successful flight by our team will be the first conducted by an entirely student-driven group. Our emphasis for the mission will be heavy-utilization of commercial off-the-shelf parts to minimze R&D costs and time.
Summer 2015
100K ft Flight, Codename: Icarus V
​Icarus Rocketry was ultimately formed with a single goal in mind: achieve a rocket flight to the edge of space by an entirely student-driven team. The von Karmen line is internationally recognized as the boundary for space - a lofty altitude (and goal) of 100,000 km.
Fall 2016
100k+ Km Suborbital Flight, Codename: Icarus X
Unsatiated by our reach to the edge of space, we, at Icarus set our sights even further. By evolving the Icarus X launch vehicle, we hope to develop a cheaper launch solution for research CubeSats heavily used by Universities to short-term Low-Earth Orbit (LEO).