Despite numerous weather incidents, Mississippi State University’s Space Cowboys Rocketry Team was able to defeat the odds and place first in their category in the International Rocket Engineering Competition, one of the world’s biggest rocketry competitions, this summer. Space Cowboys has been MSU’s nationally competitive high-powered rocketry team under the Department of Aerospace Engineering since...
The weather was 55 degrees with clear skies — ideal conditions for a launch. The only problem was the wind. A steady five-mile-per-hour southern breeze threatened to carry CubeSat's first weather balloon,...
