Project Daedalus

Project Daedalus is SSI's experimental rocketry program, focused on developing exciting yet approachable technologies for Class 2 rockets. Currently, the project is composed of four teams, each of which are designing, building, and testing novel concepts, all while earning rocketry certifications. The four teams, and their projects, are as follows:

Pegasus

Pegasus will be a parafoil recovery system, allowing accurate and controlled descent.

Prometheus

Prometheus will use controllable canards to control the roll of the rocket on descent.

Talos

Talos will be a testbed for a new electronics suite, giving improved data acquisition, reliability, and communications to ground

Charybdis

Charybdis will use spin stabilization on ascent, and then de-spin before parachutes are deployed