Cal Poly's First Liquid Rocket Launch

Описание: SLO Propulsion Technologies is proud to announce that we have launched Cal Poly's FIRST Liquid Rocket: Goose! It was only one year ago that SPT successfully hot fired the school's first undergraduate liquid bipropellant engine, and now we've made our liquid rocket launch debut. Especially considering none of the team has ever launched a rocket before, we are incredibly happy with how well the rocket performed:

15,300 Feet at Apogee
Mach 1.1
Nitrous/IPA Engine
Ballistic Recovery
From Design Inception to Flight in 7.5 Weeks

We had never hot fired this engine architecture before flight, and yet Goose still hit heights and speeds rarely seen by a debut collegiate rocket. With this flight, SPT and Cal Poly have now entered an exclusive club of about a dozen schools that have flown liquid rockets. And, only a handful of those colleges have reached the heights we have on our first attempt. Imagine what can happen in another 7.5 weeks...

Thank you to SPT's families and friends for your support and belief in our members. Thank you to our sponsors Cal Poly Engineering, Cal Poly Mechanical Engineering, the Cal Poly Student Machine Shops, Stoke Space, Toray Advanced Chemicals, and Epsilon3 for giving us the tools to do what was previously thought impossible.