Our Rockets
- 2025 – 2026 · Flown
Koeia
DRACO's most advanced vehicle to date — the team's first with an integrated active-drag (airbrakes) system, flown at the 2026 NASA Student Launch on an AeroTech L2200G.
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- 2024 – 2025 · Flown
Forest Wyvern
DRACO's 2024–2025 vehicle, flown at the NASA Student Launch in Huntsville on an AeroTech L1940X — reaching 4,717 ft, within 8 ft of its own prediction, with a three-stage recovery and a STEMnaut crew-simulation payload.
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- 2023 – 2024 · Flown
Starfire
DRACO's 2023–2024 vehicle, flown at the NASA Student Launch on an AeroTech L2200 — reaching 5,102 ft, within ~200 ft of target, and built around a lighter all-composite airframe.
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- 2022 – 2023 · Flown
Draco
DRACO's first full-scale competition vehicle for the 2022–2023 NASA Student Launch, flown in Huntsville with a dual-deployment recovery system and an autonomous 3D-printed rover payload.
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- 2021 – 2022 · Archive
Rocket III
DRACO's 2021–2022 vehicle, designed around a Cesaroni L1685 motor for a declared 5,230 ft target. The Critical Design Review is the only report recovered for this cycle — whether it flew at competition, and with what result, is still unconfirmed.
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- 2020 – 2021 · Archive
Rocket II
DRACO's 2020–2021 vehicle — a transitional rocket from the team's early years. Recovered mission photos are up; flight and specification data is still being restored.
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- 2019 – 2020 · Archive
Rocket I
DRACO's first NASA Student Launch competition vehicle, designed around an L1395-BS-0 motor for a simulated ≈3,750 ft apogee. The Critical Design Review is the only report recovered for this cycle — the achieved apogee and competition result are still unconfirmed.
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