U.S. COLLEGE ROCKETRY
Launches, engineering updates, competition results and team announcements from across collegiate rocketry.
Archive collection: March 6–September 6, 2026. Sources checked September 6. This curated collection is not a live or exhaustive social feed. Team-reported updates are not CRS-verified records.
37 updates
Articles & team updates
Published August 27, 2026; event: 2025–26 NASA Student Launch season.
JMU reports Sirius I finished ninth overall and earned AIAA's reusable-launch-vehicle award. Its retrospective discusses a triple-deployment recovery system and lessons in teamwork and systems integration. This is an August retrospective, not an August launch.
Articles & team updates
Published July 21, 2026; competition May 16–17, 2026.
Cedarville reports third overall at the Midwest high-power competition, first in design presentation and second in technical reporting. The university also describes a separately launched experimental vehicle with apogee control.
Articles & team updates
Published July 16, 2026; event June 2026.
LURA's first IREC appearance brought recognition for LAIKA, the robotic-dog payload aboard Talon. The university reports an SDL honorable mention for technical relevance.
Articles & team updates
Published July 9, 2026; event June 2026.
Liberty reports OMEGA finished 18th out of 141 entries at IREC.
Articles & team updates
University article June 18, 2026; team mission page identifies April 2026 as the flight month.
USC describes Daybreak as RPL's third successful spaceshot. The team reports carrying five payloads beyond the Kármán line and recovering the vehicle intact. The June article and mission page describe one flight, not two milestones.
Articles & team updates
University page last modified April 27, 2026; event April 2026.
Purdue describes the Indianapolis chapter's launch of an 11-foot carbon-fiber rocket, Sagittarius, at LDRS. The account follows the new organization's manufacturing, preparation and launch-day problem solving. The earlier Flamingo flight discussed in the article occurred in February and is background, outside the event window.
Articles & team updates
Published April 20, 2026; competition labeled 2025 by the university.
Texas A&M reports its Sounding Rocketry Team won the TII telemetry challenge and $30,000.
Articles & team updates
Wiki update surfaced as April 13, 2026; planned tests April 19 and May 3, 2026.
SSI describes work on a liquid-engine test rig, planned nitrous/IPA engine tests and an IREC airbrake project. These are published intentions; the retrieved page does not establish that either hot fire occurred.
Competition awards
June 2026 competition · Awards July 2; organizer page July 6
Overall champion; 30K COTS winner.
Competition awards
June 2026 competition · Awards July 2; organizer page July 6
Overall runner-up; 30K solid SRAD winner.
Competition awards
June 2026 competition · Awards July 2; organizer page July 6
10K COTS winner; photo honorable mention.
Competition awards
June 2026 competition · Awards July 2; organizer page July 6
Second, 10K COTS.
Competition awards
June 2026 competition · Awards July 2; organizer page July 6
Second, 30K COTS.
Competition awards
June 2026 competition · Awards July 2; organizer page July 6
10K solid SRAD winner.
Competition awards
June 2026 competition · Awards July 2; organizer page July 6
Second, 10K solid SRAD.
Competition awards
June 2026 competition · Awards July 2; organizer page July 6
Technical excellence and modeling/simulation wins; spirit runner-up.
Competition awards
June 2026 competition · Awards July 2; organizer page July 6
Team-spirit winner; sportsmanship runner-up.
Competition awards
June 2026 competition · Awards July 2; organizer page July 6
Sportsmanship winner.
Competition awards
June 2026 competition · Awards July 2; organizer page July 6
Technical-excellence and innovation runner-up.
Competition awards
June 2026 competition · Awards July 2; organizer page July 6
Payload honorable mention.
Competition awards
June 2026 competition · Awards July 2; organizer page July 6
Payload honorable mention.
Competition awards
June 2026 competition · Awards July 2; organizer page July 6
Live rocket video winner.
Competition awards
June 2026 competition · Awards July 2; organizer page July 6
Photo winner.
Competition awards
June 2026 competition · Awards July 2; organizer page July 6
Third, photo.
Competition awards
June 2026 competition · Awards July 2; organizer page July 6
Photo honorable mention.
LinkedIn updates
2026 season · Exact publication date unconfirmed
The team announced a July 11–12 launch window, then referred to the launch as successful in a sponsor update. Event: July 2026; exact post date unconfirmed. Category: Launch; team-reported outcome.
Instagram counterpart dated May 23, 2026 for outreach ↗
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LinkedIn updates
2026 season · Exact publication date unconfirmed
GTXR announced support for the Ramblin' Rocket Club and acknowledged sponsor attendance at the launch. Exact post date unconfirmed; adjacent July launch context. Category: Sponsorship.
Instagram counterpart dated May 23, 2026 for outreach ↗
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LinkedIn updates
2026 season · Exact publication date unconfirmed
The university club advertised three to four placements for 2026–27, with a July 30 application deadline. This is outreach run by a U.S. college club, not a college-student job listing. The application deadline has passed. Relative age: three months. Category: Outreach.
Instagram counterpart dated May 23, 2026 for outreach ↗
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LinkedIn updates
2026 season · Exact publication date unconfirmed
University reporting reposted by the team describes fifth overall at NASA USLI and a project-review award, alongside payload and airbrake work. Relative age: two months. Category: Competition.
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LinkedIn updates
2026 season · Exact publication date unconfirmed
The team reports that both its USLI and IREC groups flew at Samson, Alabama on March 7; USLI completed vehicle and payload demonstrations. Year inferred from the surrounding 2025–26 season context; exact event date remains unconfirmed. Category: Testing.
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LinkedIn updates
2026 season · Exact publication date unconfirmed
Clarkson reports a post-apogee failure at IREC 2026 and an unsuccessful recovery after GPS loss. Its follow-up describes root-cause-analysis work without claiming a confirmed cause. Relative age: one month. Category: Flight / Lessons learned.
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LinkedIn updates
2026 season · Exact publication date unconfirmed
Leads presented testing results and project objectives to reviewers. Relative age: four months. Category: Engineering.
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LinkedIn updates
2026 season · Exact publication date unconfirmed
The payload group described plans to compare shielding materials. Relative age: five months. Category: Payload development, not a demonstrated flight result.
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LinkedIn updates
2026 season · Exact publication date unconfirmed
The team described flight-computer, telemetry and recovery-electronics work with sponsored PCB fabrication. Category: Engineering / Sponsorship.
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LinkedIn updates
2026 season · Exact publication date unconfirmed
The team reports successful launch and recovery, 43rd overall and 28th in 10K COTS at IREC 2026. Relative age: two months. Category: Competition.
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LinkedIn updates
2026 season · Exact publication date unconfirmed
A team post reports a successful flight demonstrating active drag and a new ground station, followed by recovery. Relative age: four months; exact date unconfirmed. Category: Testing.
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LinkedIn updates
2026 season · Exact publication date unconfirmed
MIT announced dSPACE as an L2 sponsor and Sift as an L1 sponsor. Relative ages: four weeks and two months. Category: Sponsorship.
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