Category: Dark Works
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Are We Ready? Dark Works’ First Certification Flight
It is true what they say, friends really do make things easier, especially when carrying several nearly five foot tall unguided rockets through a hotel lobby. After months of work it was finally our team’s level 1 high powered rocketry certification flight attempt. To this point it had been quite the journey for our team…
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Pleiades 2 Mission Patch Design & Symbolism
Designed by: Monica Choiniere The Pleiades 2 mission patch mirrors the Pleiades 1 design to maintain visual cohesion between the two missions. The key difference lies in the rocket’s exhaust trails. For Pleiades 2, two separate red streams represent the launches of both Pleiades 1 and 2 from opposite US coasts. These streams also form…
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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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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…
