First Incident

SARP reaches ~50 undergraduate members. USEED crowd-funding raises ~$15K, Blue Origin donates ~$5K for payload, and local industries donate ~$5K in cash and kind. New design implementations include:
  • motor redesigned to prevent burnout
  • new main chute deployment separation
  • new filling procedures implemented
Test launch at Brothers, OR, experienced a pre-ignition issue and lost the rocket. This was the first serious safety incident and an incident report was presented at IREC by two students. No IREC launch.