USC Students Shatter Amateur Rocketry Records
A team of engineering students from the University of Southern California’s Rocket Propulsion Laboratory (USCRPL) has set a new standard in amateur rocketry. On October 20, their custom-built rocket, Aftershock II, launched from Nevada’s Black Rock Desert, reaching an altitude of 470,000 feet (89 miles)—the highest ever achieved by an amateur rocket. According to the …