Five years after becoming the first students to launch a rocket into space, the University of Southern California Rocket Propulsion Lab soared past 470,000 feet for the highest amateur spaceflight. Such feats have made it a top incubator for space industry talent. This could not be happening. Five years after becoming the first students to launch a rocket into space, the University of Southern California Rocket Propulsion Lab (USCRPL) was readying a redesigned model, Aftershock II, for an even higher ascent from Nevada’s Black Rock Desert.

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  • Meet the USC student rocket club that shattered a world altitude record
    Five years after becoming the first students to launch a rocket into space, the University of Southern California Rocket Propulsion Lab soared past 470,000 feet for the highest amateur spaceflight.
    11/24/2024 - 8:00 pm | View Link
  • USC Rocket Propulsion Laboratory reaches the stars
    Aftershock II reached an altitude of 470,400 feet and a velocity of 3,600 miles per hour. Launched Oct. 20 at 11:16 a.m., it is eight and a half inches in diameter and 13 feet tall. The rocket weighed ...
    11/24/2024 - 7:30 pm | View Link
  • Student Rocket Reaches Space, Smashes World Record for Highest Altitude: 470,000 Feet
    Aftershock II comes from the Rocket Propulsion Lab at USC's Viterbi School of Engineering. In 2019, the lab built Traveler IV, the first student-built rocket to pass the Kármán ...
    11/20/2024 - 3:24 am | View Link
  • Student-built rocket smashes an altitude record while breaking through the atmosphere
    The "Aftershock II" soared further into space than any non-governmental and non-commercial group has ever flown before.
    11/19/2024 - 8:08 am | View Link
  • Student rocket hits 470,000 feet altitude, smashes 20-year-old world record
    Students at the University of Southern California’s Rocket Propulsion Lab (USCRPL) designed and built the rocket named Aftershock II. The launch occurred on October 20th from th ...
    11/18/2024 - 8:34 pm | View Link
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