Project ATLAS; Political Ecology and the Climate Impacts of Spaceflight

Project ATLAS was a project to develop and test a small hybrid liquid-solid rocket motor. The team successfully designed and built a motor; however, unfortunately due to safety concerns we were unable to successfully hot fire the motor despite successful hydrostatic and cold flow tests.
Political Ecology and Climate Impacts of Spaceflight analyzes how spaceflight impacts global inequalities with regards to carbon emissions and climate change. The analysis concludes that spaceflight does not significantly contribute to global inequalities.
These two projects are related in that they both relate to rocketry, though otherwise they do not connect in any significant way as Project ATLAS was a development project that did not focus on climate change whereas Political Ecology and Climate Impacts of Spaceflight is an analysis that focuses entirely on climate change and global inequalities.

School of Engineering and Applied Science

Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering

Technical Advisors: Dan Quinn, Chloe Dedic

STS Advisor: Travis Elliott

Technical Team Members: Gavin Miller, Harshit Dhayal, Ved Thakare, Mannix Green, Aiden Winfield, Sean Dunn, Dominic Profaci, Thomas DeCanio, Joshua Bird, Harrison Bobbitt, Taka Suzuki, Darsh Devkar, Jack Spinnanger, Silas Agnew, Zach Hinz, Alexander Gorodchanin, Adis Gorenca, James Dalzell