Mission Statement

The USC Rocket Propulsion Lab (RPL) is focused on state-of-the-art in rocket propulsion technology. Armed with determination and the goal of putting student-built rockets into space, members spend their free time designing, building, and testing experimental rocketry and propulsion hardware. Additionally, RPL aims to provide students the opportunity to apply knowledge taught in the classroom to a project with both tangible challenges and tangible results, as well as to provide an academically stimulating environment comprised of ideas from different disciplines and levels of experience.

From SPAce shot to space program

Our founding goal was to becoming the first collegiate team to launch a rocket into space. After accomplishing this goal with Traveler IV in 2019, the team has set its sights on becoming the only collegiate team to have a fully in-house space program, capable of carrying commercial and scientific payloads to space.