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Prepping for TARC Nationals

4/27/2017

New nose cones fresh off the printer and ready for practice launches to prepare for TARC Nationals. Our teams are flying 2 different 3D printed pieces, the transition and the nose cone.

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The most recent educational engagement activity was a rocket building workshop for intermediate school students. 12 students built rockets after school yesterday under the direction of the SLI team members. Unfortunately, due to the weather, we were not able to launch them. Next week there are two more sessions with an additional 20 students.

As TARC Nationals draws near, we are going to shift updates from SLI to TARC.

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Post Launch Assessment Review - PLAR

4/25/2017

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The Post Launch Assessment Review, or PLAR, from our launch in Huntsville was recently submitted to NASA for review. The file is above.

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Team photos from Huntsville..

4/21/2017

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A huge shout out to NAR member and photographer Jim Wilkerson! The photos look great! More photos from Huntsville in the coming days.

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On-board video from the Huntsville launch

4/20/2017

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The video below was taken by a Mobius HD camera on the side of the body tube in a 3D printed mount. The video shows that there was no vibration in either of the 2 3D printed fins visible in the video. The rocket reached an altitude of 4492ft. The video starts with the 5 second count down and ends on the ground. I cut out the dizzying spinning of most of the descent.

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Outreach at Windy Hill Senior Center

4/19/2017

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Yesterday, members of the NASA SLI 2017 team had a presentation at the Windy Hill Senior Center in Spring Grove, PA. There was an overview of the project, the experiment, the rocket and our team. In the fall we will do a rocket building workshop at the center as well.

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Plaque for NASA SLI project completion

4/18/2017

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April 17th, 2017

4/17/2017

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Rutters has accepted SGASD Student Launch Initiative as a supported charity as part of their Rutter Rewards program. If you have a Rutters Rewards card, please register it and become a VIP program member on their store website. Once you are a VIP Rewards member, go to the Rutters website, click on "Rewards", login, click on "Rutters Rewards Schools" on the far right, scroll down and click on "Student Launch Initiative" and then "Support Selected Charity" at the bottom of the page. Once you go through this process, we will earn a donation from Rutters every time you use your rewards card to make a purchase at Rutters. Last year we earned $500 from the donations.

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More photos from the Rocket Fair.

4/13/2017

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On the way to the pad.

4/12/2017

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After 8 long months of paperwork, design, construction, testing, fundraising, etc. The team walks out to the paqd in Huntsville ready to launch their rocket with a scientific payload.

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Student Launch rockets on the pad...

4/11/2017

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60 teams traveled to Huntsville, AL to launch at Bragg Farm in Toney, AL. Here are some of the teams on the pad and waiting for launch. If you recognize your rocket, contact me for photos or a high speed video of takeoff at [email protected].

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Rocket retrieved after a successful flight.

4/10/2017

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After a perfect flight, the rocket was retrieved with no damage.

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US Space and Rocket Center

4/9/2017

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The US Space and Rocket Center is an amazing place to see artifacts from space travel history. It has the only full scale shuttle with fuel tank and solid rocket boosters, the capsule from Apolo 16, the containment trailer from Apolo 12 and many other items including a full Saturn V rocket!

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The Rocket Fair..

4/9/2017

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The rocket fair was an opportunity for all teams to display their rockets and payloads. They also get a chance to talk to various other team members about their project, the rocket, the payload and their experiences.

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NASA SLI team launches successfully in Huntsville!

4/8/2017

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The SLI team today traveled to a farm north of Huntsville to launch with 59 other high schools and universities. The launch was perfectly straight and both parachutes deployed successfully. We retrieved the rocket from the field undamaged. The altitude was 4492ft. The video below shows today's launch. Stop back daily for additional photos and launch videos.

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Spring Grove Rockets
Wall of FAME

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!

Battle of the rockets 2019 target altitude champions!

9th place in TARC 2019!

Prepping for TARC Nationals

Rocket building workshop

Post Launch Assessment Review - PLAR

Team photos from Huntsville..

On-board video from the Huntsville launch

Outreach at Windy Hill Senior Center

Plaque for NASA SLI project completion

April 17th, 2017

More photos from the Rocket Fair.

On the way to the pad.

Student Launch rockets on the pad...

Rocket retrieved after a successful flight.

US Space and Rocket Center

The Rocket Fair..

NASA SLI team launches successfully in Huntsville!

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Slow motion video of award winning flight from Huntsville, AL 2015

Award Winning Huntsville Flight 2015, regular speed

Spring Grove Rockets​ Wall of FAME

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!

Battle of the rockets 2019 target altitude champions!

9th place in TARC 2019!

Archives

Slow motion video of award winning flight from Huntsville, AL 2015

Award Winning Huntsville Flight 2015, regular speed

Spring Grove Rockets
Wall of FAME