BlueHorizon is the United States Air Force Academy's collegiate rocketry club — a breeding ground for engineering creativity that competes in national collegiate rocketry competitions and connects cadets with faculty research. Envisioned by a cadet in 2019 at the height of the FalconSat program, the club has grown to more than 50 cadets designing, machining, and flying liquid-propellant rockets — including our own N₂O/IPA engine, built in-house.
Liquid N₂O/IPA engine development — injectors, chamber, nozzle, and the test campaigns that prove them. Home of the throttling and gimbal programs.
Airframe, nose cone, landing legs, and the loads analysis that keeps it all in one piece from ignition to recovery.
Simulation and control algorithms — SIMULINK models, control laws, and the math that keeps the vehicle pointed the right way.
Ground support equipment: test stands, DAQ, plumbing, and the communications systems that run every static fire.
Custom flight computers — schematic and PCB design, embedded software, and hardware-in-the-loop testing.
Purchasing, outreach, media, and the operations backbone that keeps a 50-cadet engineering program moving.
Live from our internal documentation — what the team worked on most recently.