Beach Launch Team

Beach Launch Team Beach Launch Team is a university student group at Cal State Long Beach dedicated to designing, buil

Welcome to the page California State University Long Beach's rocket and space program. We originally stem from a previous rocket program known as California Launch Education Initiative (aka CALVEIN) that was founded by the school and a private company called Garvey Spacecraft Corporation (now known as Vector Space Systems) in 2001. During the majority of our history, we were funded via co

mmercial, government, and academia contracts.This is our first year designing, developing, and building a rocket for the purpose of competing. The competition that we will be entering is called the FAR/MARS prize competition and it is being co-hosted by the Friends of Amateur Rocketry and the Mars Society. Our core team consists of about 19 students in aerospace, mechanical, electrical, computer science, and chemical engineering. The rest of the team consists of 20 assistants and new members. Our program has been and is dedicated to building only liquid fuel rockets and this is what has allowed our school to stand out from the rest of the university rocket clubs which primarily do solid fuel rockets. We are divided into seven groups: avionics, propulsion, engine, structures, recovery, launch control, and GSE. Currently, most of the team members here at CSULB completing there undergrad or graduate degree. Below are the names of the team officers:
Cristian Acosta, Co-Project Manager/Engine
Hector Felix, Co-Project Manager/Avionics
Andy Nguyen, Structures
Carlos Sanchez, Structures Assistant
Xan Balayan, Structures Assistant
Derek Honkawa, Propulsion
Daniel Perez, Propulsion Assistant
Josh Wong, Propulsion Assistant
Tim Debus, Recovery
Francisco Mendez, Recovery Assistant
Frank Meono, Launch Control/Software
Manny Ceballos, Launch Control/Software/Avionics
Henry Pham, Structures Assistant
Scott Chau, Engine Assistant
Lizette Hacia, Engine Assistant
Filipe Coehlo, Technician
Juan David Lopez, Webmaster

Come and join us for our first GBM through Zoom today at 7PM! Learn more about BLT and our subsystems 🚀 ...
09/08/2021

Come and join us for our first GBM through Zoom today at 7PM! Learn more about BLT and our subsystems 🚀

BLT will be having a design contest! Come up with a design for our next rocket — B1D 🚀 - Submit a color theme, specific ...
03/19/2021

BLT will be having a design contest! Come up with a design for our next rocket — B1D 🚀
- Submit a color theme, specific design (purely cosmetic), and/or name for the rocket through direct message (DMs), instagram stories and tag us or post it on your instagram using !
- The submission can be any type of drawing or sketch!
- The BLT Leads will choose the best design and name for the next rocket

Have fun and be creative!!

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Hey everyone! We will be hosting a joint meeting with AIAA this Thursday at 5:30PM. Join us as BLT and AIAA feature gues...
03/03/2021

Hey everyone! We will be hosting a joint meeting with AIAA this Thursday at 5:30PM. Join us as BLT and AIAA feature guest speakers from SpaceX, Northrop Grumman, and Blue Origin! 🚀
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Who’s excited for our GBM today? I know I am 😁 Join us to hear all about our announcements and subsystem updates 🚀🚀 ...
02/18/2021

Who’s excited for our GBM today? I know I am 😁 Join us to hear all about our announcements and subsystem updates 🚀🚀
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Come stop by our GBM today and learn about our new upcoming rocket designs! Can’t wait to see you there 🚀🚀 ...
02/11/2021

Come stop by our GBM today and learn about our new upcoming rocket designs! Can’t wait to see you there 🚀🚀
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Come stop by our GBM today and learn about our upcoming rocket designs! We can’t wait to see you there 🚀 ...
02/11/2021

Come stop by our GBM today and learn about our upcoming rocket designs! We can’t wait to see you there 🚀
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It was such an honor to speak to one of our amazing alumni last night at our GBM! Acosta, thank you for coming back to t...
10/09/2020

It was such an honor to speak to one of our amazing alumni last night at our GBM! Acosta, thank you for coming back to talk to all of our members! ❤️🚀 .

Hi rocket family! We are so excited to announce that we are officially our own organization as of this Fall! We will hos...
09/10/2020

Hi rocket family! We are so excited to announce that we are officially our own organization as of this Fall! We will host our first fall GBM this Thursday 9/10 at 5:30pm via Zoom. Join us if you’re able to!

MEMBER MONDAY 🚀❤️ Our very own Engine & Structures Team member, Bryce Martin, is working hard at home! “I’m working with...
04/20/2020

MEMBER MONDAY 🚀❤️ Our very own Engine & Structures Team member, Bryce Martin, is working hard at home! “I’m working with a company in Northern California called Repkord that started this organization called OpShieldsUp [link below]. Makers with 3D printers are able to print face shield parts and then send those parts to this company where they take the parts, clean the parts and assemble the entire face shield to then send off to hospitals that need them. I would encourage anyone with an idle 3D printer to make use of this. It’s a very unique opportunity to help!” .
Link to OpShieldsUp: www.opshieldup.org
#2020 @ California State University-Long Beach

MEMBER MONDAY!! 🚀❤️One of our Engine team members, Danny Yos, is spending his time at home building himself a new camera...
04/14/2020

MEMBER MONDAY!! 🚀❤️
One of our Engine team members, Danny Yos, is spending his time at home building himself a new camera! Pictured is his old camera and designs for the new one. Swipe to the end to see one of his pictures! .
@ California State University, Long Beach

We want to engage with our members and our community through social media! 🚀❤️🥳 Here’s how:•Every Monday (starting 4/13)...
04/08/2020

We want to engage with our members and our community through social media! 🚀❤️🥳 Here’s how:
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Every Monday (starting 4/13) we will be sharing photos of our members doing fun in-home activities!
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Every Wednesday (starting tonight!) we will post a Q&A on our Instagram stories! All stories will be saved in our highlights on our profile. Ask anything!
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Every Thursday at 5:30 PM we will be hosting our general body meetings on Instagram Live for 10-15 minutes! Here we will give team updates and answer the best questions from Wednesday’s Q&A!
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Every Saturday (starting 4/11) we will have a lead takeover on all our socials to talk about themselves, show great quarantine study tips, or go through their day-to-day schedule!
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Which one are you the most excited for? ❤️🚀 .

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