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WVU Experimental Rocketry

WVU Experimental Rocketry is a student-run West Virginia University organization founded in 2013 that welcomes students from all majors to learn and build high-powered rockets. The team designs, fabricates, tests, and flies competition vehicles, sounding rockets, and scientific payloads through a student-teaches-student program; official WVU and team sources document the Shenandoah Sunrise 2025 IREC first-place 30,000-foot Student Researched and Designed solid-fueled result and continuing propulsion, composite, recovery, and outreach work.

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High-powered rocketry, sounding rockets, scientific payloads, propulsion, composite structures, avionics, recovery, and collegiate competition
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WVU Experimental Rocketry
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WVU Experimental Rocketry is a student-run West Virginia University organization founded in 2013 that welcomes students from all majors to learn and build high-powered rockets. The team designs, fabricates, tests, and flies competition vehicles, sounding rockets, and scientific payloads through a student-teaches-student program; official WVU and team sources document the Shenandoah Sunrise 2025 IREC first-place 30,000-foot Student Researched and Designed solid-fueled result and continuing propulsion, composite, recovery, and outreach work.
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39.63582
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-79.95453
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August 14, 2026 at 04:21:25 UTC
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August 14, 2026 at 04:21:25 UTC