About Us
FAR OUT is a multi-university rocketry team competing in the FAR-MARS Launch Contest. This competition will take place in May 2018 at the Friends of Amateur Rocketry launch site in the Mojave Desert. We are designing, building, and launching a liquid oxygen, liquid methane rocket capable of reaching an altitude of 45,000 feet.
The core team came together last spring as interns, after an event called Rocketman which aimed to launch 100 model rockets at sunset in the Mojave Desert. In about two weeks, the team designed and built a 10-foot, Level 2 high-powered rocket out of scrapped materials. This rocket launched twice at the FAR site, once with a generously donated sugar motor, and the second with a commercial motor.
A year later, we reconvened upon hearing about the FAR-MARS Launch Contest, and expanded our team to other people from our schools to tackle this project. Each school is taking their subsystem as a project for their rocketry chapter, or in some cases, credit for senior design courses. Currently, our team is split as follows: Northeastern designing and building the propulsion systems, Rochester Institute of Technology working on avionics, Georgia Tech creating the recovery and structures, and Virginia Tech taking on aerobody analysis and manufacturing.
The core team came together last spring as interns, after an event called Rocketman which aimed to launch 100 model rockets at sunset in the Mojave Desert. In about two weeks, the team designed and built a 10-foot, Level 2 high-powered rocket out of scrapped materials. This rocket launched twice at the FAR site, once with a generously donated sugar motor, and the second with a commercial motor.
A year later, we reconvened upon hearing about the FAR-MARS Launch Contest, and expanded our team to other people from our schools to tackle this project. Each school is taking their subsystem as a project for their rocketry chapter, or in some cases, credit for senior design courses. Currently, our team is split as follows: Northeastern designing and building the propulsion systems, Rochester Institute of Technology working on avionics, Georgia Tech creating the recovery and structures, and Virginia Tech taking on aerobody analysis and manufacturing.