New ESRA Web Site Under Construction
The web site will be pretty bare-bones until we learn how to use this new service, so please bear with us. We will concentrate on planning/information for the 7th Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition to be held in June 2012.
UPDATE 1/12/11: Dates Changed for 7th Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition
The previous dates chosen for the 7th Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (7th IREC) turned out to not work well for more teams than we had anticipated. Therefore, we have changed the dates to June 21-23, with June 24 as a weather backup day. For future IRECs, they will start on the third Thursday in June.
Background:
The Experimental Sounding Rocket Association, founded in 2003, seeks to further the field of experimental sounding rocketry, which we define as roughly between "experimental" or "research" high-power rockets and sounding rockets capable of reaching space (generally defined as 100 km altitude).
Our current emphasis is in hosting Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competitions every June near Green River, Utah. The following video, produced by 2011's winning team from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, gives a good summary of what the competitions are all about:
UPDATE 1/12/11: Dates Changed for 7th Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition
The previous dates chosen for the 7th Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (7th IREC) turned out to not work well for more teams than we had anticipated. Therefore, we have changed the dates to June 21-23, with June 24 as a weather backup day. For future IRECs, they will start on the third Thursday in June.
Background:
The Experimental Sounding Rocket Association, founded in 2003, seeks to further the field of experimental sounding rocketry, which we define as roughly between "experimental" or "research" high-power rockets and sounding rockets capable of reaching space (generally defined as 100 km altitude).
Our current emphasis is in hosting Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competitions every June near Green River, Utah. The following video, produced by 2011's winning team from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida, gives a good summary of what the competitions are all about:
