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The SSI Rockets team builds Level 1 and Level 2 high-powered rockets through the Tripoli Rocketry Association, and is researching new systems for L3 rocketsThe Rockets Team Faculty Advisor is [[Dr. Hai Wang]].
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The Rockets team is a student-led group striving to push the limits of high power rocketry. The team is working on creating and testing essential and novel systems for an eventual large-scale project. The previous project, Lightning, proved to be a much larger task than the team had the ability to complete in a timely manner. The team is now working on designs for [[Project Daedalus]], a suite of four rockets designed to test novel rocketry technologies. [[Talos]] is a launch vehicle for [[Kythera]], [[Charybdis]] is testing out passive ascent stabilization with canted fins, [[Prometheus]] is demonstrating active roll control of a payload on descent, and Pegasus is testing a parafoil recovery system.
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To accomplish each of the components of Daedalus, the Rockets team builds and launches Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 [[high-powered rockets]]. These are launched with national rocketry clubs.
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The team is currently working on preliminary designs for [[Project Daedalus]], a suite of 4 rockets designed to test novel rocketry technologies: [[Talos]] will test rocket avionics, [[Charybdis]] will test canted fins, [[Prometheus]] will test PID fin control, and [[Pegasus]] will test a parafoil recovery system.
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The Rockets team Faculty Advisor is [[Dr. Hai Wang]]. The current team leads are Christopher May and Ian Gomez.
 
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The current team leads are Christopher May and Ian Gomez.
      
<noinclude>[[Category:Rockets]]</noinclude>
 
<noinclude>[[Category:Rockets]]</noinclude>
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