October 6, 2026 | Tahera Salman Almugabgab and Ian Withington · On Sep. 26, Michigan Tech’s most powerful liquid rocket was fired. The rocket was built by the Keweenaw Propulsion Lab (KPL): the largest of five subgroups of the Aeronautics and Rocketry Enterprise (AERE). It was designed for 250 pounds of force at peak for a five-second burn duration.
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