St. Mark's Rocketry

St. Mark's School of Texas Rocketry Team // Also known as SMASA // Competing in TARC 2020

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Splashdown! Welcome back to planet Earth, @Inspiration4x!

[Victor Vescovo @VictorVescovo]

Automated Lander "Skaff" at the bottom of the Eastern Pool of the Challenger Deep. (Picture taken with my cellphone from inside the Limiting Factor submersible.) The "scoop" soil sampler was designed and built by the great students from my High School, St. Mark's of Texas.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Completing feed system for 29 Raptor rocket engines on Super Heavy Booster

[St. Mark's Rocketry @sm_rocketry]

@elonmusk the @HighSchoolSolar solar challenge promotes the advancement of EV technology! https://t.co/0lqWvthOc3

[St. Mark's Rocketry @sm_rocketry]

Hey @elonmusk you should check out the annual @HighSchoolSolar solar car challenge live stream!

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

SpaceX’s fifth high-altitude flight test of Starship from Starbase in Texas

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starship SN10 landed in one piece!

[St. Mark's Rocketry @sm_rocketry]

Very exciting-in the second photo you can see the soil recovery device designed by a team of St. Mark’s students

[Richard Garriott @RichardGarriott]

Today, we did lots of briefings, planning and setting up experiment tables. #venturetothedeep

[St. Mark's Rocketry @sm_rocketry]

@Lalalisa1223 @oncor @ERCOT_ISO I’m here to tell you that 75230 has been without power too since 9 AM

[SpaceX @SpaceX]

Starship landing flip maneuver

[St. Mark's Rocketry @sm_rocketry]

@EngineeringFrog @RocketContest @KerbalSpaceP @SMTXathletics 7,966

[American Rocketry Challenge @LaunchWithARC]

Our @KerbalSpaceP Rocketry Challenge 3rd Place team...St. Mark's School of Texas from Dallas, TX! Congratulations!

[St. Mark's Rocketry @sm_rocketry]

We are happy to announce our 3rd place finish in the #tarc2020 Kerbal Rocketry Challenge, and congrats to @astral_orbit and the boy scout crew for their respective 2nd and first place finishes.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Great mission patch design!

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

SN 5 & 6 at Starship Production Complex in Texas

[St. Mark's Rocketry @sm_rocketry]

@RocketContest Thanks for the opportunity to compete in some form or fashion during covid, I know we all enjoyed it. We look forward to the winnner announcement and of course the TARC 2021 challenge!

[St. Mark's Rocketry @sm_rocketry]

@ARKinspace1 Yea we were curious too because our initial design landed 3 at different times, and wanted to get clarification. There’s a lot in the rules that we were curious about because it seems to allow for interpretation in some regards.

[St. Mark's Rocketry @sm_rocketry]

@ARKinspace1 You do (did) not. We had to clarify with them, but the stipulation in the rules kind of said it “only one has to land, Eva and plant the flag.”

[St. Mark's Rocketry @sm_rocketry]

@astral_orbit @GunnAero @RocketContest I never thought about that, but it does make sense

[St. Mark's Rocketry @sm_rocketry]

The 40.0 m/s impact tolerance on the crew cabin is quite useful in the TARC KSP competition, not really sure why it exists though. I think that's equivalent to about 90 mph
#TARC #KSP @RocketContest

[St. Mark's Rocketry @sm_rocketry]

@astral_orbit @GunnAero @RocketContest Well implied maybe but they also said “A ‘craft’ is defined as at least one single part, or stage(s) of parts”, so you can theoretically define your “craft” as what lands safely