Team America Rocketry Challenge - 2010
The rules for TARC 2010 offer a new kind of challenge to the student teams, forcing even teams that may have entered TARC previously to go "back to the drawing board" and learn some new rocketry skills. While the flight goal remains flying an egg to a precise altitude (825 feet this year) and duration, the teams this year will be required to use a completely different type of recovery device to return the egg and altimeter: a streamer rather than a parachute. The techniques for achieving the duration goal with a streamer are quite different; it's harder, and it will put a new emphasis on protecting the fragile egg payload.
(excerpt from rocketcontest.org, the official website of the Team America Rocket Challenge)
Stay tuned for updates as we enter the research and design phase of our project.