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SPRING GROVE ROCKETRY

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Spring Grove Area Middle School Places First in Target Altitude and Second in Deployable Payload at the Battle of the Rockets! 4/6/25

SPring Grove Middle School Places Second in the Country at The American Rocketry Challenge!

SPRING GROVE HIGH SCHOOL is NASA Student launch altitude champions! Makes history with spot on 4500ft launch in Huntsville (2023)!

Battle of the Rockets 2022 and 2019 Mars Rover event Champions!

High school TARC team places 25th in the country!

NASA SL 2015 NATIONAL ALTITUDE CHAMPIONS

Battle of the rockets 2019 target altitude champions!

9th place in TARC 2019!

Glow in the Dark rocket parts and on-board video of Darwin's rocket.

4/29/2016

We are currently 3D printing glow in the dark rocket parts for a night launch in New York in late May.

Great video from an HD camera on the Darwin rocket. When the rocket spins, it gets crazy to watch, but pause it at times to see the launch field and the size of the cars in the parking lot over 4000' up. That is approximately 400 stories up. If you don't care to watch the whole video, skip to the end and see the landing. That is cool!

Team photos from the rocket fair.

4/28/2016

More great photos from Jim Wilkerson. Click on the image to see the whole photo.

The Rocket Fair and Rocket Garden from Launch Week 2016.

4/27/2016

Tesla launch photos from Huntsville!

4/26/2016

Another great pair of photos from the NASA Student Launch in Huntsville, AL by Jim Wilkerson. This maybe the last time we see this beautiful rocket, since it is still in a tree in AL.

Darwin launch photos!

4/25/2016

Great photos from the launch in Huntsville by NAR volunteer photographer Jim Wilkerson. The Smokey Sam propellant is always interesting to see frozen in time. Tesla tomorrow.

Rocket Fair display

4/23/2016

The rocket fair display was very popular. Many people liked to see the payload, the rockets, and talking with the team members.

Spring Grove complete the SLI program - launch videos included!

4/22/2016

Teams Tesla and Darwin have completed the NASA SLI 2016 program. Please see the above trophies that were awarded at the banquet in Huntsville. It was an amazing experience, that many team members will not forget. The live feed from NASA's Ustream channel on Saturday was recorded and it is now available in its entirety on their website here:

Launch videos for teams Tesla and Darwin

Advance the video to the following times.
Darwin launch 19:38-21:57
Tesla launch 21:58-23:28

US Naval Academy Launch

4/21/2016

Here is the video from the launch of Reptar, the rocket from the US Naval Academy. All of the team members are seniors and we wish them well as they are stationed all over the globe protecting our freedom. Thank you for your service!

Banquet and closing ceremony

4/20/2016

Launch week culminates in a banquet of all university and high school teams. At the banquet we are able to reflect about the year and we receive our completion trophies. With the amount of work and the level of difficulty, just completing this program is an great accomplishment. Roughly 14 teams that were accepted into the program did not reach this point and many others were not even accepted into the program. Congratulations Team Tesla and Team Darwin!

York Daily Record article was updated : http://www.ydr.com/story/news/education/blogs/cram-session/2016/04/05/spring-grove-students-ready-launch/82616934/

Photos from launch day

4/19/2016

It was a beautiful sunrise when we arrived onto Bragg Farm to set up for launch day. It was brisk with a stiff wind. The pictures above show the rockets being checked into the RSO (Range Safety Officer) table and on the pads with other rockets waiting for liftoff!

Motor failure for one university team.

4/18/2016

Even though one of our rockets is still in a tree in Alabama, one team had a worse day. Here is a university rocket that had a failed motor. I am trying to find out which team's rocket this was. We are currently headed home and will be back in Pennsylvania today. What an amazing launch week.

Penn State University USLI rocket!

4/17/2016

We are.... Penn State's USLI rocket. One of the largest of the day taking off on a powerful L motor from the back pads.

Team Tesla's rocket as it clears the pad in Huntsville.

4/17/2016

Team Tesla's rocket clears the pad in Huntsville. It was a perfectly straight flight. Unfortunately, the main parachute deployed at apogee and after drifting it landed in an 80ft high tree. After a couple hours of working with ropes in an Alabama wetland, we were not able to retrieve the rocket and unfortunately do not know how high it actually traveled.

Team Darwin's launch at SLI in Huntsville!

4/16/2016

Here is team Darwin's flight as it was coming off the pad today. They reached a height of just over 4600ft. They represented our school very well with a perfect flight! We will be posting videos of our launches and photos from the Launch Week daily, so stop back and enjoy.

Team Tesla update tomorrow.

Launch day!

4/16/2016

After 8 long months of writing reports, oral presentations, fundraising, design, construction, practice launches and analysis, launch day has finally arrived. It will be a beautiful sunny day. We will try to launch both rockets between 11:30am-1pm eastern time. There are no scheduled time slots, so that is a bit variable.

Here is the link for the live launch today : http://www.ustream.tv/channel/nasa-msfc

Spring Grove Pride!