{"id":54534,"date":"2023-10-11T09:55:42","date_gmt":"2023-10-11T13:55:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/?p=54534"},"modified":"2024-11-16T17:37:30","modified_gmt":"2024-11-16T22:37:30","slug":"rocket-mocs-make-nasa-competition-for-fifth-straight-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/rocket-mocs-make-nasa-competition-for-fifth-straight-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Rocket Mocs make NASA competition for sixth straight year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_54535\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"960\" data-attachment-id=\"54535\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/2023\/10\/rocket-mocs-make-nasa-competition-for-fifth-straight-year\/rocket-mocs-2023\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/10\/Rocket-Mocs-2023.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1280,960\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;1.6&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;iPhone 12&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;1696855125&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;4.2&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;100&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0.016666666666667&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Rocket Mocs 2023\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/10\/Rocket-Mocs-2023-1024x768.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-54535 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/10\/Rocket-Mocs-2023.jpg\" alt=\"Rocket Mocs, from left: Joshua Tang, Isaiah Schmelzer, Sam Mossbeck, Jared Fiveash, Connor Mackey, Rett Stockman, Adrianne Glover and Canyon Blaylock.\" style=\"max-width: 100%;\"style=\"max-width: 100%;\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/10\/Rocket-Mocs-2023.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/10\/Rocket-Mocs-2023-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/10\/Rocket-Mocs-2023-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/10\/Rocket-Mocs-2023-580x435.jpg 580w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/10\/Rocket-Mocs-2023-610x458.jpg 610w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/10\/Rocket-Mocs-2023-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/files\/2023\/10\/Rocket-Mocs-2023-2048x1536.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rocket Mocs, from left: Joshua Tang, Isaiah Schmelzer, Sam Mossbeck, Jared Fiveash, Connor Mackey, Rett Stockman, Adrianne Glover and Canyon Blaylock.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga\u2019s \u201cRocket Mocs\u201d team has earned NASA recognition as one of the best in the country for a sixth consecutive year.<\/p>\n<p>The team is again competing in the NASA Student Launch Challenge, a nine-month-long competition in which student teams from across the U.S. design, build, test and launch high-powered rockets carrying scientific or engineering payloads. The competition is a hands-on, research-based engineering activity and culminates each year with a final launch in Huntsville, Alabama, near the Marshall Space Flight Center.<\/p>\n<p>The Rocket Mocs are one of 49 collegiate teams selected nationwide. The team was first accepted into the competition in 2019 and has been selected every year since.<\/p>\n<p>The official launch for all current teams will be in April 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Under the rules, the Rocket Mocs\u2019 eight members\u2014Rett Stockman,\u00a0Canyon Blaylock, Sam Mossbeck, Connor Mackey, Isaiah Schmelzer, Joshua Tang, Jared Fiveash and Adrianne Glover\u2014must build a rocket that can reach an altitude of at least 4,000 feet but no higher than 6,000 feet.<\/p>\n<p>At 400 feet elevation on the rocket\u2019s descent, it must release a payload without a parachute that falls to Earth and lands without damage. The type of payload is up to the teams. The Rocket Mocs decided theirs would be a drone of some kind; something that might be able to land itself.<\/p>\n<p>How everything works together to achieve the goal is up to each team, but the final design must fit NASA rules, which are extensive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor me, the very initial feelings were being very overwhelmed with how involved this thing is and also not being familiar with how NASA does their rules,\u201d Mossbeck said. \u201cThat rule document was like 100 pages. So each of us spent two or three days just reading through the entire thing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd the very first ideas that we started to have, we kept finding out they weren\u2019t allowed, so that kept raising the stakes and feeling like we\u2019re running out of ideas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team leader Stockman said some rules are simple, \u201clike don\u2019t blow anything up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut some of it gets really, really specific and it gets into launch procedures and stuff,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s team members are all seniors majoring in mechanical engineering, but the Rocket Mocs are comprised of different students every year. Being selected for the NASA competition five years in a row is \u201ca testament to how great our students are that we get accepted into this program each year,\u201d said Dr. Trevor Elliott, UC Foundation associate professor in mechanical engineering and faculty advisor to the team.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am always impressed by the talent of our students,\u201d he said. \u201cWe truly do get some of the best and brightest here at UTC.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the pressure of this year\u2019s competition, the team had only eight days to figure out how to meet NASA rules and submit a design proposal for approval. To make the deadline, each team member spent about 35 hours a week casting for ideas and researching possibilities for the competition, Stockman said. That was in addition to going to class and working on course assignments.<\/p>\n<p>Each team member is now responsible for a specific rocket component, the payload or the competition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery team member should have some sketches for different parts of the rocket,\u201d said Stockman. \u201cWe\u2019re going to go through and start deciding and ranking which we think is the best, and which one are we going to keep going forward with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSome of these ideas are a little out there. That\u2019s the whole point.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now that they\u2019re officially in the competition and have several months to figure out the complexities, the stress has reduced, Mossbeck said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m feeling a whole lot better,\u201d he said. \u201cI feel like I can trust my teammates to work on their stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Team members said they have been in one class or another with each other, which also lessens the worry.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPretty much everyone in here has been friends or worked together on something in the past,\u201d Schmelzer said. \u201cSo seeing that everyone was someone we knew or someone we could count on was super beneficial.\u201d<\/p>\n<h4>Learn More<\/h4>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/enrollment-management-and-student-affairs\/admissions\/visit\">Visit UTC<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/engineering-and-computer-science\">College of Engineering and Computer Science<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/news\/tag\/rocket-mocs\/\">Rocket Mocs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.utc.edu\/apply\">How to apply<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Rocket Mocs team has earned NASA recognition as one of the best in the country for a fifth consecutive year. 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