The rocketry team traveled to St. Albans, Vermont for yet another high-spirited launch! With summer-like weather and tranquil winds, we launched four more of our custom-built rockets. Two additional team members obtained their NAR L1 certifications, and one member achieved a successful relaunch of their L2 certification rocket using a J400 motor, resulting in our highest confirmed altitude to date, reaching an impressive apogee of 3604 feet.
Our headliner for this launch was DEWICK (Dual-deploy Electronically-controlled Wickedly Intimidating Cloud Kicker), our first attempt at building a high powered rocket as a collaborative Tufts Rocket Team effort. Anticipated to soar beyond 10,000 feet and exceed speeds of 1000 mph, DEWICK represented a remarkable milestone for our chapter. Despite the tight timeframe for design, construction, and testing, our dedicated team triumphantly completed DEWICK, passing all integration assessments and readying it for launch. Although the launch itself encountered a setback—an explosion resulting from motor failure—we gleaned invaluable insights to guide our forthcoming ventures. For more info on how we went about building the rocket, check out our blog post on The Tale of DEWICK. If you're more interested in the technical aspects of the rocket, check out our wiki and Nico's documentation on the rocket build.
