Two weeks ago, I had the honor of representing Princeton University and Princeton Rocketry at the annual Spaceport America Cup in southern New Mexico, hosted by the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association. Our 14-foot, 85-pound rocket, dubbed "Prometheus," successfully reached an altitude of ~24,500 feet, hitting Mach 1.6 and 24.6 Gs of acceleration. With successful parachute deployment and recovery operations, Prometheus became the largest and most powerful rocket Princeton Rocketry has ever launched at the competition, and the first to be fully recovered from such an altitude. I am incredibly grateful for the hard work and dedication put in by each and every team member over the past year to take this project from an idea to a final launch vehicle, and I could not be prouder to have led such a great team! Special thank you to our mentor and flier of record, Michael X. Infante - the team could not have done it without his expertise!
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Congrats on the achievement!
Congrats on the achievement!
Great job!
Princeton Aero & CS | ML at Estée Lauder | SDE at JHU APL | AI/ML Fellow | RTC | Princeton Rocketry Co-President | CodePath
1moCan’t wait to hear more about it!