TAMU Sounding Rocketry Team

About the Team

The Texas A&M University Sounding Rocketry Team (SRT) is an interdisciplinary student-run organization dedicated to developing engineering talent through design, construction, testing, and showcasing of complex rocket systems powered by hybrid rocket engines. Our goal is to develop our members into talented engineers by providing them with the necessary skills and tools to grow and succeed. Every day we aim to accomplish feats only thought possible in industry by incorporating professional design reviews, rigorous testing, and in-depth documentation of individual systems, hardware, and software.

Latest News

3-19-2022: Lazarus has flown! On March 12th, 2022, the Sounding Rocketry Team launched their hybrid engine powered vehicle on its maiden test flight to an altitude of 7,947 ft. AGL. This test flight provided invaluable data on how the vehicle fares in flight and the knowledge gained will be used in readiness for the upcoming Spaceport America Cup over the summer.

Thank you to Tripoli Houston for hosting this launch event, they graciously provided us the time and space that permitted this flight attempt.

Launching a hybrid engine rocket is no easy feat, and the team is excited by this success. However there is now a significant amount of work to be done as well as improvements to be made before competition.

8-25-2021: Our team has been accepted to the 2022 Spaceport America Cup! Information about the competition can be found here.

2-1-2020: Over the past year, the team has been hard at work developing a brand new engine (Vulcan) and airframe (Lazarus). In November 2019, the team successfully static fired a prototype of Vulcan for the first time - making this a landmark year in which SRT has designed, constructed, and tested a new engine in the span of only one semester.

Flight of Lazarus on 3-12-2022 at the Hearne Municipal Airport.

Gallery

SRT-7 members meeting at the RELLIS campus Flight Lab Hangar. Most of the team's operational tests and integrations take place at this facility.

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Competition

The Experimental Sounding Rocketry Association annually hosts the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition. This year, Spaceport America continues their partnership with ESRA to host the 5th Annual Spaceport America Cup. The emphasis of the ESRA rocket competition is student design and construction of as much of the rocket as possible. This includes any propulsion, structures, avionics, recovery, or payload systems. The Sounding Rocketry Team will be competing in the 30,000 ft AGL apogee with SRAD hybrid or liquid rocket propulsion system category of the IREC/SAC.

Awards

As this year's team aims to win the 2023 Collegiate Propulsive Lander Challenge, here's a list of awards previous teams have won:

SRT-5 (2017-2018)
Texas A&M University | Adair Student Organization of the Year Award
2018 Spaceport America Cup Conference | Selected Podium Session

SRT-4 (2016-2017)
2017 Spaceport America Cup | 2nd Place | 10K Student-Researched & Developed Hybrid or Liquid Rocket
2017 Spaceport America Cup | Charles Hoult Award for Modeling & Simulation
2017 Spaceport America Cup Conference | Selected Podium Session

Flight of Theseus-II at the 2019 Spaceport America Cup.

Our Sponsors

The Texas A&M University Sounding Rocketry Team would like to thank our sponsors for their support as we continue to improve our rocket systems and prepare for the Spaceport America Cup.