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North Carolina State University High-Powered Rocketry Club
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11/01/2026

With the spookiest time of the year coming to pass, here’s what we did on the week of 10/25 to 10/31 🗓️ :

Vehicle/Recovery 🚀🪂
- Redesigned and printed electronics housing for filament winder project
- Started redesign for filament winder squeegee assembly
- Performed parachute drop testing

Payload 🪨🛞
- Finalized wire sizing for payload electronics
- Began working on test plan for payload rover
- Printed TPU belts and drivetrain parts
- Started writing code for using encoder boards

Aerodynamics/Airbrakes 💨
- Finalized Airbrakes layout for fullscale rocket

Wolfworks 🐺🔧
- Partially assembled test stand for liquid motor

10/26/2026

As Halloween nears, here’s what we did on the week of 10/18 to 10/24 🗓️ :

Vehicle/Recovery 🚀🪂
- Ordered upgrades for filament winder project, such as replacement belts
- Redesigning filament winder to support new hardware
- Went over shock loading calculations and altimeter programming

Payload 🪨🛞
- Finalized wire sizing for payload electronics
- Continued CAD work on payload rover drivetrain
- Started writing code for using encoder boards

Aerodynamics/Airbrakes 💨
- Explored L motors that could be used for test launches

Wolfworks 🐺🔧
- Acquired test stand metal
- Worked on final electronics design and bill of materials

10/20/2026

Coming up on fall break, here’s what we did on the week of 10/11 to 10/17🗓️ :

Vehicle/Recovery 🚀🪂
- Performed another wet wind with the filament winder
- Acquired new tow for future wet winds
- Programmed EasyMini and Fluctus

Payload 🪨🛞
- Worked on drivetrain and finalizing hardware such as spur gears and belts
- Started work on driver node programming
- Researched wire sizing for payload rover

Aerodynamics/Airbrakes 💨
- Cut holes into club rocket Jackpot to install a camera
- Performed hand calculations to determine stability of the rocket

Wolfworks 🐺🔧
- Assembled propellant valves for liquid rocket
- Finalized launch stand CAD

10/12/2026

With interest launch just around the corner, here’s what we did on the week of 10/4 to 10/10🗓️ :

Vehicle/Recovery 🚀🪂
- Performed a wet wind with the filament winder, and identified issues presented
- Held a workshop for parachute folding
- Repaired parachutes

Payload 🪨🛞
- Imported rack & pinion, motors and encoders into CAD
- Started work in comms plate and servos

Aerodynamics/Airbrakes 💨
- Finished up camera implementation into Airbrakes
- Continued development on Pi HAT v0.4

Wolfworks 🐺🔧
- Placed an order for hardware components
- Worked on CAD for a test stand
- Researched electronic systems

10/05/2026

Before our upcoming launches, here’s what we did on the week of 9/27 to 10/3🗓️ :

Vehicle/Recovery 🚀🪂
- Worked on implementing Klipper into filament winder project
- Picked out parachutes with holes for repair

Payload 🪨🛞
- Successfully tested payload camera
- Worked on motor control

Aerodynamics/Airbrakes 💨
- Explored alternate nose cone shape
- Worked on CAD to implement a camera/transmitter to Airbrakes bay

Wolfworks 🐺🔧
- Heat tested epoxy and aluminum with B motors
- Made CAD for fullscale and subscale engine

FIRM 💡💻
- Worked on wiring GPS

09/28/2026

Leading up to the harvest moon, here’s what we did on the week of 9/20 to 9/26🗓️ :

Vehicle/Recovery 🚀🪂
- Cut fin slots and motor tube
- Smoothed out tube seams with caulk
- Continued work on filament winder resin bath

Payload 🪨🛞
- Worked on retention mechanism for payload rover
- Continued coding for the launch relay board
- Continued work on PCB layout and reviewing designs

Aerodynamics/Airbrakes 💨
- Held a CFD workshop to compute flow dynamics

Wolfworks 🐺🔧
- Continued research and design for liquid rocket project
- Explored manufacturing hemispheres
- Started designing a sub-scale engine design for testing

FIRM 💡💻
- Researched ground stations for FIRM 2.0
- Validated GPS wiring with breakout board

09/28/2026

Our meeting times have been updated! Pick and choose which subteam meetings you’d like to attend, and find your place in our club and projects!

09/21/2026

Following a lot of material and project testing, here’s what we did on the week of 9/13 to 9/19🗓️ :

Vehicle/Recovery 🚀🪂
- Brainstormed ways to hold and tension center-pull tow for the filament winder project
- Designed a new resin bath for the filament winder project
- CAD’ed a divided subscale nose cone for payload retention
- Cut remaining test bulkheads
- Performed altimeter testing and inventory

Payload 🪨🛞
- Trimmed down CAD for the payload rover
- Worked on PCB layout
- Fleshed out deployment door system

Aerodynamics/Airbrakes 💨
- Finalized a fin design
- Successfully weight tested Airbrakes at 100 pounds

Wolfworks 🐺🔧
- Continued calculations for engine geometry
- Prepared the filament winder for another dry wind

09/20/2026

Huge thanks to the Miller Family Foundation for lending us a hand! Their support is greatly appreciated, especially as we tie up old projects and break ground on new ones!

Address

Raleigh, NC
27606

Website

http://www.ncsurocketry.org/

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