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A group of students broke the record for the highest altitude reached by an independently designed and built suborbital rocket, flying Aftershock II to 470,000 feet (143,256 meters) above Earth’s surface.

Aftershock II reached further into space than any other independently built rocket.

A group of students broke the record for the highest altitude reached by an independently designed and built suborbital rocket, flying Aftershock II to 470,000 feet (143,256 meters) above Earth’s surface. The previous record-holder was a rocket designed and built by the Civilian Space Exploration Team, which launched in 2014 to reach an altitude of 380,000 feet (115,825 meters). In 2019, the group became the first student organization to launch a rocket beyond the Karman Line, the boundary between Earth’s atmosphere and outer space that lies around 62 miles (100 kilometers) above the surface of the planet.

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