MASA is continuing the Limelight mission, planning to launch in 2026!
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MASA successfully validated the GSE system for Limelight, but experienced issues with the ME-5 engine, leading to the development of the new Phoenix Engine.
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MASA launched its record-breaking new liquid rocket, the largest and most powerful liquid rocket designed and made by a collegiate team.
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MASA's first LOx/RP-1 regeneratively-cooled liquid rocket engine, RP-D2, is hotfired in the Mojave desert, the team's first hotfire outside of Michigan.
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MASA was scheduled to launch its record-breaking new liquid rocket with a target altitude of 400,000 ft – the edge of space. Due to competition closures, TSM never launched.
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MASA's first LOx/Ethanol regeneratively-cooled liquid rocket engine, PT-163, becomes the most powerful liquid rocket engine ever built and tested by a university team when it achieves 2650 lbf of thrust in a blowdown hotfire.
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MASA is awarded first place in Phase 1 of the Base 11 Space Challenge for its preliminary design report (PDR) for Tangerine Space Machine, at the Next Frontier event at Caltech.
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MASA is the first team to launch and recover a liquid bipropellant rocket, Laika, at Spaceport America Cup. It receives the highest score in the hybrid/liquid category, and the sportsmanship award.
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MASA builds the two-stage 2x4 designed to launch to 240,000 ft. It never flew due to issues with FAA waivers but would have set the world record for altitude in amateur rocketry.

MASA is awarded 1^st place at the inaugural Spaceport America Cup in the Hybrid/Liquid Category for the flight of Tortas 8 with its new and improved Gamma Centauri hybrid engine, and is declared the overall winner of the competition.
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MASA first launches Blueshift with an M-Class commercial engine, designed for the 10,000 ft COTS category at Spaceport America Cup. Since then Blueshift has flown many times as an avionics & recovery test platform.
 

MASA successfully launches The Great Emancipator with the Alpha Centauri engine to 13,800 ft. It places second in the Advanced Category at IREC 2016 and is the only Hybrid successfully launched at the competition.
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Croissandwich is flown on a commercial O-Class motor and becomes MASA's first supersonic rocket, while 10¢ Jim is entered into IREC 2015 as a Basic Category rocket.
   

MASA develops its first in-house hybrid rocket engine, Alpha Centauri, designed to propel a rocket to 25,000 ft.
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Using experimental lightweight parachutes, MASA launches Young Hickory and receives second place in the Basic category at IREC 2014.

MASA successfully launches Helios to 10,000 ft at IREC 2013. This is its first rocket with a composite airframe and its largest rocket to date.
 

MASA launches Bojangles, designed to reach an altitude of exactly 5,280 ft. It incorporates drag tubes along the airframe to provide active control and was tested at U-M's full-scale wind tunnel.
 

MASA attempts to break an altitude record for the first time with the flight of Maverick III, designed to fly to 70,000 ft. Unfortunately, the team was unable to pull off a successful flight.

MASA flies Maverick I for the Michigan Aerospace Challenge as a demonstration for local schools. It carries a CANSAT from the Student Space Systems Fabrication Lab and flies an L-Class commercial solid rocket motor.
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MASA builds and flies Hybrid I with a commercial J-class hybrid rocket motor - its first experience beyond solid rockets.
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MASA is founded as an amateur rocketry club at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.