Senior Design Spotlight: Elizabeth Bruner Elizabeth was the President of HPRC this past year. Over the year she led all of our GBMs, organizations events, managed the Senior Design project, led launches, welcomed many new members, and the list could go on! #ncspacegrant

Senior Design Spotlight: James Garmon As integration lead James kept up timelines, ensured requirements were met, led safety for the senior design team, and much more! Now that he’s graduated he’ll start working for the Navy in the fall! #ncspacegrant

Senior Design Spotlight: Aditya Chadha Aditya was the Aero lead this past year. As the Aero lead, he focused on creating an accurate model of the rocket to use in simulations that gave insight into the flight characteristics, apogee height, and landing locations. #ncspacegrant

Senior Design Spotlight: Lauren Wilkie Lauren was the senior design Recovery lead. She was in charge of sizing parachutes/shock cord, determining ejection charges, and the electronics control the recovery. She also got involved in making her own parachutes. #ncspacegrant

Senior Design Spotlight: Donald Gemmel Donald was the Structures lead this past year who focused on the design and fabrication of our airframes. This year he completed plenty of composite layups in order to create and light but strong airframe. #ncspacegrant

Senior Design Spotlight: Mason Meyer Mason was this past year’s Software Lead for the payload team. Over the year he worked on programming the GrAVE/ZOMBIE system so that it performs its tasks in order and at the correct moment after landing. #ncspacegrant

Senior Design Spotlight: Emily Cates Emily was the Structures Lead for the payload team this past year. In this position she led the physical design of our GrAVE/ZOMBIE payload. Now she is searching for launch vehicle/space structure job openings! #ncspacegrant

Senior Design Spotlight: Ben Radspinner Ben was this pasts years Electronics Lead for the payload team. In this lead position he developed the electrical system/circuits that were required for the payload to unlatch, eject, self-right, dig, and test soil. #ncspacegrant

Senior Spotlight: Aidan McCloskey Aidan is a recent grad who studied Biomedical engineering and this past year he performed duties as the clubs Safety Officer. Now he is pursuing his Masters in Biomedical Engineering while also working as at restor3d! #graduate #ncspacegrant

What a year! We are proud to announce that we place 3rd in the 2026 NASA Student Launch! On top of that we also earned the: -STEM Engagement Award -Altitude Award -Best Looking Rocket Award #ncspacegrant #nasastudentlaunch

Last but certainly not least we have BLUESKY! As of this past semester they have started to support our mission! We appreciate all they’ve provided in order for our team to continue working! Thank you BlueSky!!! #Bluesky #nasastudentlaunch

Next we’d like to thank one of our new sponsors NOCTURNAL! They have graciously helped fund the projects that we are producing! We are grateful for their support and look forward to a great connection! Thanks Nocturnal! #nocturnal #nasastudentlaunch

First we’d like to thank our long time supporters @ncspacegrant ! For many years they have provided and supported what we do! They’ve allowed us to grow so much as a club and who knows where we would be without them! Thank you @ncspacegrant #ncspacegrant #nasastudentlaunch

Huntsville Launch 2026!

“Weekly” overview: Being the last few weeks till Huntsville, the hasn’t been as much to review compared to earlier this year. This will be the last weekly overview so to wrap it up, please enjoy some pictures from the past weeks! #ncspacegrant #nasastudentlaunch

Last Friday we attended the NC Space symposium set up by @ncspacegrant. It was a great opportunity to converse with people in the industry and learn from other student projects! #ncspacegrant #nasastudentlaunch

🗓️3/29 - 4/4 Week Overview 🗓️ This week focused on finding a location to launch our competition rocket! Due to a burn ban keeping us from launching at our launch site, we reached out to different locations and were able to launch in Virginia! #ncspacegrant #nasastudentlaunch

Week of March 22–28: Continued progress toward launch with ongoing ejection testing, payload reassembly and validation, airbrake design improvements, and avionics and structural work on Machet. #ncspacegrant #nasastudentlaunch

On March 14th we launched our Fullscale competition rocket! Despite some difficulties with the heat inside the rocket we were able to gain significant data for our Airbrakes system, including 6 data sets from our custom flight computer FIRM! #nasastudentlaunch #ncspacegrant

Week Overview: 3/8 - 3/14: final prep, payload integration, flight code, and airbrake improvements all coming together along with ejection testing complete. Wolfworks launch delayed by a hardware issue, but already working toward the next launch #ncspacegrant #nasastudentlaunch