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June 16 - 20, 2020

Brought to you by the Experimental Sounding Rocket Association and the Spaceport America Crew
BECOME A JUDGE
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Join us June 16th through the 20th for the fourth annual Spaceport America Cup. The Cup is designed around the Intercollegiate Rocket Engineering Competition - for student rocketry teams. This competition hosts teams from American and International Colleges and Universities. With over 124 teams registered in 2019 from around the globe, the competition will be challenging for the participants and exciting for spectators. University students will be launching solid, liquid, and hybrid rockets to target altitudes of 10,000 and 30,000 feet.

Presentation and Conference Day is FREE for the public to attend


​The world's largest intercollegiate rocket engineering conference and competition

Over 1,500 students and faculty gathered in Southern New Mexico for second annual Spaceport America Cup in 2018. Drawn by the opportunity to collaborate and compete at a world class spaceport facility, they represented the best and brightest from more than 70 institutions located all across the USA and around the world. 
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Join us as we once again host hundreds of the worlds most ambitious collegiate rocketeers  in a one of a kind event. Part academic conference and part design-build-fly style competition, the Spaceport America Cup has something to offer students, faculty, industry representatives, and amateur aerospace aficionados alike.

Learning by doing

The forth annual Spaceport America Cup will occur 16-20 June 2020 at the Las Cruces, NM Convention Center and the Spaceport America Vertical Launch Area. After presenting results from a year or more of research & development to peers and prospective employers in an academic conference, student teams will put their designs to the ultimate test by attempting launch under real world conditions at Spaceport America. 
16 JUN '20
17-19 JUN '20
20 JUN '20
Spaceport America Cup Conference at the Las Cruces Convention Center in Las Cruces, NM
Field operations begin at the Vertical Launch Area on the Spaceport America, NM campus
Concluding field operations at the Vertical Launch Area, followed by off-site awards ceremony and social  

The future beckons.
​How will you answer the call?

Whether you are an academic, an industry representative, a retired professional, or simply a passionate amateur supportive of young minds who seek new horizons... there are many ways you may become a part of an event impacting the future of aerospace...
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...as a Sponsor...

You will meet with hundreds of talented STEM students from top ranked schools in a professional setting. You will see both them and their hardware perform in real world conditions. Furthermore, you will be helping make possible an event which helps make the best possible candidates for your company! 
EMPOWER!
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...as a Volunteer or Judge...

You will join the highly motivated team which brings order to the mess of small puzzle pieces required to build the worlds biggest collegiate rocket engineering conference and competition. From directing crowds to directing launches, and everything in-between, we need your volunteerism at the Spaceport America Cup! 
SUPPORT!
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...as a Student... 

You will demonstrate your hard work on an international stage, in front of hundreds of your peers, professors, and prospective employers. You will engage in design-build-fly style rocket and payload engineering competitions in a professional setting, at world class facilities, where the sky is not the limit!
COMPETE!
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