Blog #5 | Hotfire Attempt 2.5

Over this past week, there have been a lot of ups and unfortunately a few downs as well. The good news is that our team’s finances are doing exceptionally well so far and we’ve managed to secure several new sponsors, among which are Rocket Lab, the UNH SAFC organization, and many more. On the other side of things, unfortunately an electrical issue occurred during our hotfire test this past Thursday and caused our igniters to fire prematurely leading the test to be canceled. Luckily we have another control board already on the way and our avionics team is planning on fixing the issue and attempting another hotfire within the next week!

As for upcoming events, this Friday and Saturday, we are holding our first 24 hour rocketry Hackathon for our members to brainstorm designs and work together for an entire day. Also next week, three of our board members are attending the International Astronautical Congress in Washington D.C. In other news, our President Charlie Nitschelm was recently interviewed and was accepted as a Starship Build Engineer at SpaceX (Go Charlie!) and we’re proud to say that he is the first UNH student to be accepted at any commercial space company!