USC Rocket Propulsion Lab’s third successful spaceshot, Daybreak, carried payloads for other student organizations and validated new technologies that expand the team’s ability to return to space on repeat.
USC Rocket Propulsion Lab (USCRPL) are on a roll with their to-do list.
When the student-run team was established at USC Viterbi’s Department of Astronautical Engineering two decades ago, their founding goal was to become the first collegiate team to launch a rocket into space.
Since meeting that target in 2019 with Traveler IV and breaking the altitude record for amateur rocketry with Aftershock II in 2024, the team has set its sights on becoming the only collegiate team to have a fully in-house space program, capable of carrying commercial and scientific payloads to space.
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