Rocket launch by the Portland State Aerospace Society

Via Ben Brockert comes news of the launch on Sunday of the Portland State Aerospace Society of the student built  LV2.3 rocket with active roll control: PSAS Launch-10 — June 30, 2013.

There were lots of Twitter posts during the event: PSAS (pdxaerospace) on Twitter

They posted this today – PSAS (pdxaerospace) on Twitter

A picture of yesterday’s launch: pic.twitter.com/RLAoTinuPB

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It looks great at liftoff but they posted this today – Twitter / pdxaerospace:

@wikkit Thanks! The bad news is roll control failed for an unknown reason about 5 seconds into the flight.

It nevertheless released its parachute properly and was recovered intact.