Welcome to Dark Works

We are a research team of nerds who want to explore the universe and share it with you.

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!

  • The Meaning of Our Pleiades 1 Mission Patch

    Designed by: Sarah Wattenberg The Pleiades 1 mission patch features a rocket with a long entrail launching from Earth into space. The rocket depicted has the same silhouette as the rockets launched during this mission for the Level 1 Certification (L1). The entrail lists last names of the team members who contributed to the preparations…

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  • Why We Started Dark Works

    “Man I rly want to start a rocket team haha” – Gary “That would be so cool..” – Thomas P. The texts that started our Dark Works, but certainly not the beginning. After all, most of us met at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, loving all things aerospace comes with the territory there. Even then, several of…

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  • The Meaning of Our Pleiades Program Patch

    Designed by: Sarah Wattenberg Welcome to the first era! The Era of the Pleiades. Marking our first launches and our foundations as a team as we look to the stars. With this in mind, we believed using the name of one of the oldest recorded star clusters would perfectly symbolize our beginnings. Just like our…

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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