SELECTED PROJECTS

IREC 2014
2013-2014 Yale Aerospace 2013-2014 Yale Aerospace

IREC 2014

The Rocket Competition team built Chronos, a rocket designed to fly 10,000 feet while carrying an atomic clock that attempted to measure relativistic effects during the 2014 Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC) hosted by ESRA. The team was awarded 2nd in the SDL Payload Competition (out of 36 teams) and additional recognition from the judges for the experimental subject.

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Rocket Launched UAV
2013-2014 Yale Aerospace 2013-2014 Yale Aerospace

Rocket Launched UAV

The Rocket Launched UAV project aimed to fire a 15ft rocket (Omega) with an autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in its payload. Successful flights of the UAV and the ascent of Omega were achieved.

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Lighter than Air
2013-2014 Yale Aerospace 2013-2014 Yale Aerospace

Lighter than Air

The Lighter than Air UAV project was intended to provide new, less experienced YUAA members with the opportunity to design and build a competition-ready UAV (Unmanned Aerial Vehicle). Lighter than Air is an aerospace design competition sponsored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME).

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2010-2011

2011-2012

2012-2013

2013-2014

2014-2015