Students of Massachusetts Amhast Team University moved their high-power rocket towards launch pad on April 4, 2025, NASA’s 2025 student launch day competition at Tony, Alabama. More than 980 middle school, high school and college students launched more than 40 high-power amateur rockets north of Huntsville. The 25th anniversary of the competition was marked this year.
To compete, students follow the NASA engineering design life cycle, leading to the day to launch the days by going through a series of reviews for nine months. Each year, a payload challenge is issued to university teams, and this year’s work focuses on communication. Teams were required to “report” from stemonuts, non-living objects inside their rockets, which were to relay real-time data for the mission control of the student team. The Artemis Student Challenge took inspiration from the agency’s Artemis missions, where NASA will send astronauts to detect the moon for scientific discovery, the moon for economic gains and to find the Moon to build the foundation for the first crew missions for Mars.
See the highlight from the 2025 student launch.
Text Credit: NASA/Janet Sudik
Image Credit: NASA/Charles Benson
