2011 Schedule

ARLISS setup: September 11

XPRS Research Launch: September 12-15 

ARLISS: September 12-15 / XPRS research launch

XPRS: September 16-18 (commercial motors only)

On Monday the 12th  through Thursday the 15th - AeroPac  holds our annual  ARLISS launch.  Research Projects still fly, but you will need to coordinate your launch with the ARLISS ground crew. That really shouldn't impede your project unless you need our launch gear and if so, you'll have to wait for an available pad (rarely is that a problem).

XPRS Friday through Sunday is for commercial motors only and XPRS competitions.

Watch the launch from the ARLISS/XPRS Virtual Classroom

Special note: AeroPac's and California Space Authority's Virtual Classroom will be providing satellite Internet service, radio base station support for Beeline and GPS Flight systems and web casting of  the entire launch from that point on.

For those of you planning to fly over 35,000' please read this.

 Night Launch

Contests

Daily Raffle

Local Lodging

Night launches Tuesday, Friday and Saturday nights - From 8:00 to 11:00 pm
- J impulse maximum without advance notice
- Rocket must have a light source on all separable rocket parts with a strobing light visible from 100 feet.
- 12,000 feet MSL is the maximum altitude for this event.

Saturday night is the first ever XPRS Chili cook off.

The way this is going to work is it will be a People's choice Chili cook off. You will purchase tickets probably @ 50 cents apiece then you will trade that ticket to a Chili vendor for a small cup of chili, you of course can buy as many tickets as you want and "spend" them with each Chili maker, and or go back to your favorite and use more tickets to fill yourself up and give them another "vote". The one other thing you will need to do is supply your own spoon!

The winner will be the person with the most tickets at the end. The Chili Cook off will start at 6pm and you will have until 7:30 pm to go and try some chili. The winner will be announced along with the winners of the XPRS competitions later that evening.

Depending on the number of tickets and number of competitors, 1st and 2nd will share in the prize pool in the way of gift certificates purchased from one of our onsite vendors with the money from the tickets.

If you plan to be a contender and be part of the actual cook off, please email me off list for further information. If all you plan to do is eat the stuff we create then this is all you need to know J

Cheers

Peter Clay
AeroPAC launch director

Huge Daily Raffle!  Scads of astounding prizes will be raffled each contest day. Stay tuned for more information on this.

Local Lodging and other accommodations