Rocketry at Virginia Tech
Rocketry at Virginia Tech is a Virginia Tech student design team that designs, builds, and launches high-powered rockets in the 10,000-foot COTS category of IREC. Its continuing work spans aerostructures and carbon-fiber manufacturing, material testing and analysis, custom avionics and flight electronics, active-drag and payload systems, telemetry, and ground verification. The 2024–25 Roadkill project documents a student-built vehicle and electronics; no unverified competition or flight result is claimed.
Identity
- Field
- High-powered rocketry, aerostructures, composites, avionics, active drag, payloads, telemetry, testing, launch, and IREC competition
- Name
- Rocketry at Virginia Tech
- Region
- NA
- Status
- active
Details
- Description
- Rocketry at Virginia Tech is a Virginia Tech student design team that designs, builds, and launches high-powered rockets in the 10,000-foot COTS category of IREC. Its continuing work spans aerostructures and carbon-fiber manufacturing, material testing and analysis, custom avionics and flight electronics, active-drag and payload systems, telemetry, and ground verification. The 2024–25 Roadkill project documents a student-built vehicle and electronics; no unverified competition or flight result is claimed.
- Latitude
- 37.231041
- Location
- Longitude
- -80.424439
- University