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Rocket Club

A club primarily focused around building rockets and attaining certifications to launch bigger rockets. 

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Rocket Club assists with building rockets to attain L1 and L2 certifications with the Tripoli Rocketry Association for its members. Rocket Club also leads the Spaceport Team, which competes at the International Rocket Engineering Competition, the world’s largest collegiate rocketry competition. Students design, build, and launch a custom L3-class rocket equipped with scientific payloads. Through this project, members gain experience in high-power propulsion, recovery systems, avionics, and mission execution under pressure.

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(IREC) International Rocket Engineering Competition

An AIAA-hosted competition to build a rocket and fly a payload, it attracts competition teams from around the world.

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