Updates

Despite being cut short, the 2019-2020 academic year was by far the most productive ever for SRL. Click the link below to see a summary of what we accomplished this year! CU SRL 2019-2020 Academic Year in Review

As of Friday March 13th, CU SRL has halted all on-campus project work in response to the COVID-19 epidemic. In order to protect our members, all in-person meetings related to CU SRL have ceased indefinitely. While we deeply regret having to cut this semester off short, the health and safety...

On November 2nd, 2019, we launched our largest rocket yet! A 12-foot tall behemoth, Diamondback soared to over 5,000 feet and reached just under 500 miles per hour! This vehile was fabricated 100% in-house by SRL as one of our main projects of Fall 2019. This project proved our ability...

As of April 2019, COBRA has been renamed to the CU Sounding Rocket Laboratory, or SRL! This name was voted on by the team and found exceptional support. We expect to fully update our website and public materials to reflect this over the next few months. TEAM ACTIVITY UPDATES We...

On January 19, our crowdfunding campaign surpassed its goal. Thanks to the incredible generosity of our 28 sponsors, we will be competing in IREC with Copperhead in just a few months! Notifications and rewards will be sent out to supporters soon. Thank you! If you missed the campaign, but still...

Our crowdfunding campaign is finally live! We are raising $10,000 to cover the costs of developing our rockets for IREC 2019 and Spaceshot. Find the campaign here: https://www.colorado.edu/crowdfunding/?cfpage=project&project_id=23459 Donations to COBRA may be made at the link above or according to the directions below. How to Support this Campaign Please...

BOULDER, CO, December 2, 2018 - COBRA, CU's student rocketry association, successfully launched its Copperhead rocket to an altitude of 14,583 feet yesterday at 10:50 a.m. MST. The rocket, weighing in at 55.8 pounds, lifted off on a student-built N-class solid rocket motor and broke the sound barrier to reach...

The propulsion team made a significant amount of progress this semester. We constructed our own test stand for a 42mm single grain motor, built the motor, and tested it multiple times with different propellant compositions. All but one of these tests were successful. We then upgraded the main beam of...

Thanks to the hard work of COBRA's structures and propulsion teams, Copperhead is almost complete! Copperhead is the successor to our previous rocket, Ol' Murph. We anticipate launching Copperhead to approximately 11,000 feet for the first time this December. Copperhead's airframe is a four-piece assembly built from carbon fiber (wound...

14 members of COBRA successfully tested our largest custom rocket motor to date on November 3, 2018 at the Pawnee National Grassland under the authorization of Northern Colorado Rocketry. The 114 mm (4 inch) diameter motor, which was mounted on COBRA's custom-designed test stand, developed over 1 kN of peak...