VOID is a level 3 high-powered rocket that launched at the 2022 Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering competition, achieving third place in Design Implementation in the 10,000ft Commercial Off-The-Shelf propulsion category.

Members

​Nate Aquilio (Lead) - 4th year Mechanical Engineering Technology, Manufacturing and Mechanical Systems Integration
James May - 4th Year Electrical Engineer, Electrical Engineer
Austin Heisey - 5th Year Software Engineer
Brahm Soltes - 5th Year Mechanical Engineer
Will Merges - 4th Year Computer Science
Grace Dertinger - 3rd Year Mechanical Engineer
Surya Srinivasan - 5th Year Mechanical Engineer/Audio
Mike Elrod - 3rd Year Mechanical Engineer
Dante Sivo - 4th Year Computer Engineer
Ben Hyman - 3rd Year Computer Engineer
Kyle Kelsick - 3rd Year Electrical Engineer

Jake Halpern - 2nd Year Mechanical Engineer
Yevgeniy Gorbachev - 2nd Year Mechanical Engineer
Joy Sangsrichan - 5th Year Computer Science
Billy Siegener - 4th Year Electrical Engineer
Jonathan Russo - 4th Year Computer Engineer
Ryan Cross - 2nd Year Mechanical Engineer
Henry Yuqing - 4th Year Mechanical Engineering Technology
Seth Davidson - 4th year Electrical Engineering Technology
Matthew Klein - 4th Year Computer Engineer
Gillian Doolittle - 4th Year School of Individualized Study
Alex Speyer - 3rd Year Mechanical Engineer 

Airframe

VOID's airframe is made almost entirely of composites, featuring a wound carbon fiber booster, milled Dragon Plate fins, wound fiberglass payload and avionics sections, and a molded fiberglass nosecone.

Payload

Funded by the New York Space Grant, our 3U CubeSat payload deployed at apogee and descended on its own parachute, streaming live video to the ground. To extend the payload's battery life, we designed the power distribution board DARWIN to allow for remote control over the camera and power-hungry video transmitter.