# @ucirvine on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DHKHPa4SR6T
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/32187080-ucirvine-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-03-13T23:30:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** UC Irvine (@ucirvine) — https://gondola.cc/ucirvine

## Caption

The UC Irvine Rocket Project is pushing boundaries in aerospace engineering, giving Anteaters hands-on experience designing, building, and launching rockets! Their projects allow students to apply their academic coursework in a real-world environment while collaborating with industry professionals. 🚀💙💛

What They Do:
🔹 Students research, design, and fabricate high-powered rockets for competition.
🔹 The solids team, established in 2022, is taking on the challenge of developing a sugar-based rocket motor, a rare and ambitious pursuit in collegiate rocketry.

Why It Matters:
💡 Innovation Through Failure – “What matters is not how you fail but how you build up from it,” says Bryan Vu, solids team manager. The team’s ability to learn from setbacks strengthens their designs.
💡 Competing on a Global Stage – This year, the team will compete in the International Rocket Engineering Competition in Texas, aiming to launch a CubeSat with a robotic arm to simulate space applications.
💡 From Classrooms to Real World – These students are turning what they learn in lectures into real aerospace innovations, proving that the future of space starts at UC Irvine. #UCIPride

“We can build a solid foundation for future teams to learn more and build bigger, better, more efficient, and more successful rockets.” 

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