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[[File: CardinalIILaunch.jpg | right| 250px | thumb | Cardinal II lifting off the pad on a J class motor.]]
[[File: CardinalIILaunch.jpg | right| 250px | thumb | Cardinal II lifting off the pad on a J class motor.]]
The Rockets team is a student-led group striving to push the limits of high power rocketry. The team is currently working Project Daedalus, creating and testing novel systems for an eventual larger-scale rocket project. Project Daedalus. [[Project Daedalus]] is a suite of four rockets: [[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.
The Rockets team is a student-led group striving to push the limits of high power rocketry. The team's long-term goal is a shot to the 100-km Karman Line which forms the common definition of space. Along the way, it competes every year in the Intercollegiate Rocketry Engineering Competition and runs Project Daedalus, a suite of experimental projects developing technology required to reach space. This year's [[Project Daedalus]] is a suite of three rockets: [[Charybdis]] is testing out passive ascent stabilization with canted fins, [[Argus]] is designing a rocket with RF-activated interior camera systems, and [[Icarus]] is creating a reefed parachute that can vary its size during descent.
To accomplish each of the components of Daedalus, the Rockets team builds and launches [[L1 Certification|Level 1]], [[L2 Certification|Level 2]], and Level 3 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-power_rocketry high-power rockets]. These are launched with national rocketry clubs.
To accomplish each of the components of Daedalus, the Rockets team builds and launches [[L1 Certification|Level 1]], [[L2 Certification|Level 2]], and Level 3 [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-power_rocketry high-power rockets]. These are launched with national rocketry clubs.
The Rockets team Faculty Advisor is [[Dr. Hai Wang]]. The current team leads are Thomas White and William Koski.
The Rockets team Faculty Advisor is [[Dr. Hai Wang]]. The current team leads are [[User:iangomez|Max Newport]] and [[User:iangomez|Daniel Shorr]].
The rest of this page is dedicated to explaining everything an SSI Rockets Team member needs to know.
The rest of this page is dedicated to explaining everything an SSI Rockets Team member needs to know.