UMass Rocket Team
Active University of Massachusetts Amherst student rocketry organization with Payload, Recovery, and Structures subteams. Official UMass reports document recurring NASA Student Launch and IREC work, the 2025 NASA Student Launch eighth-place result, and the team’s 2026 IREC first appearance: eighth in 10k COTS, twelfth overall and second in the Northeast, with a successful 10,000-foot target flight using live telemetry, student-manufactured parachutes, additively manufactured booster hardware and air-braking controls.
Identity
- Field
- High-powered rocketry, propulsion, experimental payloads, recovery, telemetry, flight testing, NASA Student Launch and IREC competition
- Name
- UMass Rocket Team
- Region
- NA
- Status
- active
Details
- Description
- Active University of Massachusetts Amherst student rocketry organization with Payload, Recovery, and Structures subteams. Official UMass reports document recurring NASA Student Launch and IREC work, the 2025 NASA Student Launch eighth-place result, and the team’s 2026 IREC first appearance: eighth in 10k COTS, twelfth overall and second in the Northeast, with a successful 10,000-foot target flight using live telemetry, student-manufactured parachutes, additively manufactured booster hardware and air-braking controls.
- Latitude
- 42.3893259
- Location
- Longitude
- -72.5283614
- University
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- Creation Time
- August 6, 2026 at 23:25:03 UTC
- Updated Time
- August 6, 2026 at 23:25:03 UTC