Undergraduate involved with the Triton Rocket Club at UC San
Diego celebrated two successes recently. The students launched both a rocket
and a near-space balloon over the May 11-12 weekend.
The UC San Diego undergraduates launched their rocket, “Starfish Prime,” at the Lucerne Dry Lake rocket launch site in the Mojave Desert. Starfish Prime reached 820 mph (over mach 1) and 4,769 ft (almost a mile). The students
recovered the rocket intact. You can watch the launch in the video embedded
below.
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| Triton Rocket Club at the UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering |
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| Starfish Prime shoots up over the Mojave Desert |
Students with the Triton
Rocket Club also launched its first balloon system recently. It reached
105,696 feet in altitude. The near-space photos and videos from the balloon’s
trip, see below, and definitely worth checking out.
According to Triton Rocket Club president Nico Montoya, the milestones
described above are solid steps forward towards their current goal of being the
first undergraduate team to go to space (62 miles), which they plan on doing
via a rocket launched on high-altitude balloon. Their next step is building a
rocket to compete in the University Student Rocketry Challenge (USRC) over the
summer that will fly over two miles high, which they have received NASA funding
for through the California Space Grant Consortium.
Triton Rocket Club
The Triton Rocket Club (TRC)
is a pre-professional club founded at the University of California, San Diego
in the fall quarter of the 2011 school year. TRC was founded with the vision
that it would aid students interested in rocketry to gain practical and technical
experience as well as help them attain the necessary skills and connections to
get internships. Currently, the Triton Rocket Club continues to give students
an opportunity to apply the knowledge they have learned in the classroom to
real world projects.
Triton Rocket Club Executive Officers
President: Nico Montoya
Vice President:
Nathan Woodward
Secretary:
Monique McClain
Treasurer:
Krishna Gadani
Public
Relations: Daniel Kaminski
Corporate
Relations: Alex Akopian
Sponsors
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
SPAWAR (Space an Naval Warfare Systems Command)
NASA/California Space Grant Consortium
UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
UC San Diego Corporate Affiliates Program (CAP)
Aerocon Systems
ATA Engineering
Northrop Grumman Aerospace Systems
SPAWAR (Space an Naval Warfare Systems Command)
NASA/California Space Grant Consortium
UC San Diego Jacobs School of Engineering
UC San Diego Corporate Affiliates Program (CAP)
Aerocon Systems
ATA Engineering
Rocket
Club Blasts Off (Dec 3, 2013)
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