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
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.