What We Do
Rocketry
Learn with us on our journey to be certified to launch in all three rocketry certifications and how we did each step along the way.
Astronomy
Look up with us as we use hobby telescopes to probe our home universe, perhaps see some neighbors.
Education
Learn from our lessons nd our explosions… From how rockets work to finding possible aliens we got you covered!
Stories
Latest in Space
Go beyond the horizon and explore the universe beyond!
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Are We Ready? Dark Works’ First Certification Flight
It is true what they say, friends really do make things easier, especially when carrying several nearly five foot tall unguided rockets through a hotel lobby. After months of work it was finally our team’s level 1 high powered rocketry certification flight attempt. To this point it had been quite the journey for our team…
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Pleiades 2 Mission Patch Design & Symbolism
Designed by: Monica Choiniere The Pleiades 2 mission patch mirrors the Pleiades 1 design to maintain visual cohesion between the two missions. The key difference lies in the rocket’s exhaust trails. For Pleiades 2, two separate red streams represent the launches of both Pleiades 1 and 2 from opposite US coasts. These streams also form…
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Steely Eyes
Thomas P. In Andy Weir’s The Martian, a particularly astute orbital dynamics expert is lauded for his skill with the line, “Rich Purnell is a steely-eyed missile man.” Weir’s love for NASA history is on full display with this line, as it is a phrase that has long been used at NASA and among rocketeers…
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The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
Carl Sagan
Astrophysics
