The ARES team is participating in the NASA Student Rocket Launch competition where it will be competing with other top
universities and colleges across the nation at Huntsville, Alabama in the spring of 2024. Requirements for this nine-month
commitment include "designing, building, and launching a payload and vehicle components that will support NASA research
on high-power rockets". The rocket will be designed to be recoverable and reusable, with appropriate technical documentation,
extensive STEM outreach, and a design with a payload which must include an “in-air deployable payload capable of safely
retaining and recovering a group of 4 STEMnauts in a unique predetermined orientation without the use of a parachute or
streamer.”

Student Launch reaches a broad audience of colleges, universities, and secondary institutions across the nation in a nine-month
commitment to design, build, launch, and fly a payload(s) and vehicle components that support NASA research on high-power
rockets.

The College/University Division teams were challenged to create a gridded map from a satellite, or similar, image of a launch
field and autonomously locate where their launch vehicle has landed while transmitting that data back to their ground station.