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2025-06-11 UTA Aero Mavs Launch 30K’ Rocket at IREC 

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22 Jun, 2025 14:12

After successfully clearing the pad, the Aero Mavs vehicle, Osiris, unfortunately sheared in half becoming one of the many structural failures of rockets during the International Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC) held annually with over 143 student teams and universities from 22 countries. UTA believes it sheared at the payload window and not the motor bulkhead because the payload was ripped apart and half of it was not found. This was an entirely different failure than their previous vehicle, Aero Nova, which also had a failure earlier in the year. All other damage to the vehicle was the aftermath of the violent shear and landing. Aero Mavs has not completed the calculations yet to determine the exact cause of failure but after looking at the damage, flight data, and launch conditions they believe that a large angle of attack created unexpected forces on the vehicle's mid-section. Initial analysis indicates that a large bending moment resulted in the catastrophic structural failure.

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