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SpaceNews Partnership

The Experimental Sounding Rocket Association (ESRA) is thrilled to announce that we will be partnering with SpaceNews again for the 2026 International Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC).

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AIAA’s SciTech

Meet ESRA President, Steve Taylor, and Executive Director, Andy Berger, at AIAA's SCITECH 2026, January 12-16, in Orlando, Florida. They will discuss the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association's mission to provide safe and exciting opportunities for academic groups to compete in aerospace challenges and how the International Rocket Engineering Competition (IREC) supports this endeavor.

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Progress Report 2

Progress Report 2 is due February 16th at 5 PM Central.

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Special Notice Regarding IREC Team Make up

REMINDER TO ALL STUDENT TEAMS - Section 2.2.3 of the IREC Rules and Regulations makes it very clear that IREC Teams should ONLY INCLUDE STUDENTS from the identified University in the application. YOU CANNOT INCLUDE students from multiple universities on your team. All team members must be active students at the identified University.

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