Wildcat Rocketry 2024-25 Project Flights - 360 Footage

This is Wildcat Rocketry, Kansas State University's collegiate rocketry team. These are all the launches of our projects for the 2024-25 school year.

The Argonia Cup competition is an annual competition hosted by the Kloudbusters nearby in Argonia, KS. This year, it was a 2-stage competition where altitude was the name of the game! With a ceiling of 40,000 ft and a limit of 5,2800 Ns of motor propellant, optimizing your performance is the key to victory.
Our first flight would be the flight that eventually won the competition, reaching an altitude of 35,439 ft and scoring 61,778 points. Second and third place would come from CU Boulder and Purdue with scores 44,759 and 44,692 respectively.

Project Stardust is a research rocket for our team. Instead of having the standard 1 motor, this rocket has 3 motors that all light at the exact same time, resulting in a ton of thrust. Don't blink or you'll miss this rocket scream off the pad!

Project Talos is our high performance rocket this year. We got tired of building "small" rockets over the past couple of years, so we wanted to dust off our big motor casings. While this launch was only a test launch for the rocket, everything went smoothly for our full flight later this year!