Kent State High Powered Rocketry

Come pie the Rocket Team and your favorite CAE professors! Any donations are greatly appreciated! (cash and Venmo accepted) See you there! 🚀🥧

Thank you to everyone who came to see us at the 2026 A&E Expo this weekend! We always love getting to share our team with the community, and we really appreciate your support!! 🚀🚀

Join us at Raising Cane’s in Kent to support the KSU Rocket Team this Thursday, October 1st, from 6-10p.m. 🚀😁🍗

Today we had our anual Rocket Team cookout, and we celebrated our mentor, Steve’s, 10th year with us! Thank you to everyone who joined us for great food and a good time!! And thank you to Steve for hosting and for being a wonderful mentor to our team! 😊🚀

3… 2… 1… Blastoff!! 🚀⭐️ Today we launched our model rockets we built last week, and it was an absolute blast! All rockets were successfully launched!

Today at our team meeting we built model rockets! It was a lot of fun gaining hands on experience and bonding with all of our new and returning team members! 😎 Launch coming soon…

Also, it is never too late to join… team meetings every Tuesday at 6:00 p.m. in room 152 at the CAE. 🚀🚀

Join us for the first team meeting of the school year tomorrow, Tuesday August 25th, at 6 p.m. in room 152 at the College of Aeronautics and Engineering! 🚀
We are excited to start the year off right and welcome new members from all majors!

Launch and recovery recap:
-Launched with Salvo 1
-Valkyries apogee recorded at 9,659 feet, after temperature corrections apogee is fairly close to simulations of 10,500 feet
-Internal temperature inside rocket at about 120 degrees Fahrenheit with wind speed of 40 MPH
-Valkyrie was recovered, with successful parachute deployment

Day 2 recap:
-SDL check-in
-Live video challenge
-Judging

Day 1 recap:
-flight safety review done early allowed us to get first salvo for launch day one
-team photos with rocket