Rocketry Club SPEED Team
We are a diverse group of students designing, analyzing, and building high-powered rockets.
The Clarkson University Rocketry Team is a student lead competitive design team where students design and fabricate High Power Rockets for personal missions and international rocketry competitions. Team members apply multidisciplinary engineering principles to practical rocketry applications using Clarkson University’s composites laboratories.
About Clarkson Rocketry
Clarkson University Rocketry is a student-run organization that designs, manufactures and launches high-powered rockets. Clarkson Rocketry is one of thirteen Clarkson University Student Projects for Engineering Experience and Design (SPEED) teams. We are open to all students regardless of major or year. We hold weekly general meetings and sub-team meetings. The team also sponsors members to get their Level 1 and Level 2 HPR certifications.
Sub Teams
Clarkson Rocketry has been designing, building, and testing a flight data recorder that captures the loading data that the rocket will experience in flight. The payload has also been designed to survive a 10,000ft freefall.
Clarkson rocketry avionics subteam is responsible for the flight computers and parachutes. We are designing the recovery system to recover the rocket from 10,000 feet. The avionics are responsible for a telemetry downlink to allow tracking of the rocket.
Clarkson Rocketry has been designing and building this year’s flight vehicle. This year’s vehicle will be comprised of in-house made carbon fiber structural tubing and centering rings, fiberglass fins, and internal supports. The team is adamant about furthering the understanding of composite techniques and advanced manufacturing processes.
Clarkson Rocketry’s airbrakes subteam has been developing an active altitude control system for our competition rocket, that allows us to precisely control the apogee our rocket will reach during its flight.
The Modelling and Simulation Team (Modsim) is responsible for programming the code that ensures the rocket successfully reaches apogee as well as simulates the entire trajectory of the rocket.
Contact Rocketry
Here’s where we are and how to get in touch:
Clarkson University Rocketry Club
8 Clarkson Ave
Potsdam, NY 13699
Email: rocket@clarkson.edu
Instagram: @clarksonrocketry