Team Icarus of SDSU Rocket Project

Team Icarus of SDSU Rocket Project Team Icarus is the SDSU Rocket Project's Solid Rocketry Research group, building a technology base f

Team Icarus started life as an independent student project, but has has grown to represent an eclectic range of both student and industry members and become an official facet of the SDSU Rocket Project. We share the goal of educating ourselves on the engineering of research rockets, and to ultimately benefit the amateur and collegiate rocketry communities by open publication of what we learn. Team

Icarus is currently constructing our second project on a development path to very high altitude launches; a boosted dart named Icarus 2.

05/07/2017
03/21/2017
Raw video of the footage taken by the DJI Phantom 4 piloted by Daniel Hillis. Footage is at 120 fps, the actual burn was...
03/19/2017

Raw video of the footage taken by the DJI Phantom 4 piloted by Daniel Hillis. Footage is at 120 fps, the actual burn was around 4.5 seconds. More drone footage coming up soon from the IEEE Aztec AIR hexacopter.

I'll just leave this here. More to come.
03/19/2017

I'll just leave this here. More to come.

12/01/2016
Today we taught students how to use the small lathe machine and got to work on a few other projects.
11/12/2016

Today we taught students how to use the small lathe machine and got to work on a few other projects.

Great job team on repairing Icarus 1
09/23/2016

Great job team on repairing Icarus 1

The 7" HARP gun's "big brother", made by joining two 16" naval guns together. This device is 119 feet long, and set the ...
05/28/2016

The 7" HARP gun's "big brother", made by joining two 16" naval guns together. This device is 119 feet long, and set the current records for highest gun launch and most gunpowder ever burned in a single firing.

05/28/2016

We have some good news. Over the summer, Team Icarus will be working towards a fall kickstarter campaign, for a full-fledged space-shot! This could make us the first university team in history to design a launch vehicle that breaks the Karman Line.

Some Details:
We are working with some big names in the industry on revamping a 7-inch High Altitude Research Project (HARP) artillery cannon, originally used for upper atmospheric research in the mid 1960s, to run on hydrogen and oxygen instead of gunpowder. The revamped gun is expected to be capable of launch velocities near Mach 11 and achieve projectile altitudes higher than any gun ever fired.

This tech has the potential to revolutionize launch costs for small satellites, and we are extremely excited to be a part of its development.

The current goal is a Spring 2017 firing.

For those of you following the development of Icarus 2 and 3, those projects are still very much underway and we will have updates on those coming in the fall.

Tailcone almost completed
05/03/2016

Tailcone almost completed

04/29/16
04/30/2016

04/29/16

Completed the nosecone for the Icarus 2 dart.
04/20/2016

Completed the nosecone for the Icarus 2 dart.

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