Rocket Payload Design

  • Vanderbilt University

    Vanderbilt Rocketeers take on the 2020 NASA Space Robotics Challenge

    Schematic of the proposed Vanderbilt payload with autonomous guidance, sampling and recharge capability. NASA is challenging college and university rocket teams to design solutions for its proposed manned and unmanned planetary missions to the Moon and beyond. The agency is committed to landing American astronauts, including the first woman, on… Read More

    Nov. 7, 2019

  • Vanderbilt University

    Rocketeers claim sixth NASA championship with novel UAV search and deploy mission

    Vanderbilt’s Aerospace Design Laboratory again earned top honors in NASA’s 2019 National Student Launch Competition, the Space Agency announced today. This is the lab’s sixth national championship, winning the top spot in the last seven years: 2019-2018 and 2016-2013. “The 2019 project has been one of our most complex experiments… Read More

    May. 16, 2019