What We Do
Rocketry
Learn with us on our journey to be certified to launch in all three rocketry certifications and how we did each step along the way.
Astronomy
Look up with us as we use hobby telescopes to probe our home universe, perhaps see some neighbors.
Education
Learn from our lessons nd our explosions… From how rockets work to finding possible aliens we got you covered!
Stories
Latest in Space
Go beyond the horizon and explore the universe beyond!
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Steely Eyes
Thomas P. In Andy Weir’s The Martian, a particularly astute orbital dynamics expert is lauded for his skill with the line, “Rich Purnell is a steely-eyed missile man.” Weir’s love for NASA history is on full display with this line, as it is a phrase that has long been used at NASA and among rocketeers…
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Fire Aboard Pleiades 3
“Huh, that looks like smoke.” It was indeed smoke. And, as they say, “where there’s smoke, there’s fire.” In this case, there was a fire aboard the Pleiades 3 rocket. Though this launch ended up being a successful flight for our team, a fire is not exactly what you want to see (except for very…
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Our First High-Power Rocketry Launch: How We Did It
After 6-months of work, welcome to Pleiades 1 and thus welcome to the team’s first rocketry report! The first of likely four Pleiades launches this year, we have been busy not just planning Pleiades 1 but laying down our foundations for much more to come. Education is one of our team’s priorities, so we are…
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The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
Carl Sagan
Astrophysics
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