Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry

Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry Student Launch Team | Est 2018 | “One Miracle Per Flight” | Go Jackets!

[Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry @_GTXR_]

Sometimes recovery is easy… other times recovery means digging scraps of your sustainer out from a 10-foot hole in the desert.

[Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry @_GTXR_]

We are launching our first rocket of the summer, Fire on High, from FAR imminently! Join the stream: https://t.co/FASealeUhe

[GTaerospace @GTaerospace]

The Ramblin’ Rocket Club recently launched their latest rocket in the Mojave Desert. Not for a competition, but for the love of rocketry and pushing the limits. https://t.co/Lt1M2tSn5A 🚀 #wecandothat

[Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry @_GTXR_]

@joebarnard Thanks Joe! We certainly think the nosecone enjoyed its (short) flight.

[Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry @_GTXR_]

Not a slow rocket… just a REALLY fast nosecone.

[Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry @_GTXR_]

@nospamkpb Yes! Was supposed to hit 200k. We’ll post more details about the flight as we go through the footage but we have some pretty solid ideas of what happened.

[Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry @_GTXR_]

Join us as we launch our 2023 rocket - Material Girl! https://t.co/EuKQuj9TUY

[Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry @_GTXR_]

Over the last week we drove our rocket and support equipment all the way from Atlanta to FAR, where we are now hard at work preparing for an early Saturday morning flight of Material Girl!

[garrett 🤠 @brokenrobot21]

I have no clue how I ended up here. Help

[Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry @_GTXR_]

We couldn’t think of a caption for this one 🥵

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You can see the nosecone descending (lower center) and the sustainer deploying its chute (upper left).

[Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry @_GTXR_]

Success! This gorgeous shot shows our drop test article deploying after being dropped from a caravan at 1500 ft!

Huge thank you to @SDSpaceland for enabling this critical test.

[Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry @_GTXR_]

Plane is on the way to pick up the drop test article - we’ll see a drop soon!

[Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry @_GTXR_]

Fully integrated and ready to drop!

[Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry @_GTXR_]

Fully integrated and ready to drop!

[Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry @_GTXR_]

Integrating our hardware

[Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry @_GTXR_]

GTXR is currently at the Polk County Airport preparing for a drop test! This test will prove the efficacy of our parachute deployment system for our 2023 launch of Material Girl 🚀

[Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry @_GTXR_]

Integrating our avionics!

[Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry @_GTXR_]

Always a pleasure to reach out to the next generation of aerospace engineers!

[The Space Teacher 👨‍🚀✨🔭 @MrJonesSpace]

The @_GTXR_ group kicked off our #OctoberSky day with a great talk about their record-breaking rockets they launch in the Mojave Desert! @IAFultonSchools

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We are here, and we are going!

[Georgia Tech Experimental Rocketry @_GTXR_]

Many of our members are driving down to watch the @NASA_SLS launch tomorrow! Here’s one of our groups making a very important stop.