About SEB

 

A rocket team with a dream!

Co-founded in October 2016, Space Enterprise at Berkeley is a student run liquid-fuel rocket team dedicated to achieving spaceflight and developing rocket technologies at the University of California, Berkeley.

Despite being relatively young, SEB is one of the most ambitious college rocket teams in the world working towards achieving spaceflight with a liquid-fueled rocket. Working toward this dream, SEB launched multiple test-bed rockets and gained a wide array of technical knowledge and skill in rocket subsystems such as composite airframe manufacturing, in-flight data acquisition, and propulsion.

SEB currently holds the UC Berkeley record for speed and altitude, set by our LAD-4 “Updog” testbed vehicle, which launched in March 2020. Learn more about LAD-4, the first and only supersonic vehicle built by a UC Berkeley student team, here!

Aside from our rocket projects, SEB takes pride in our inclusive, diverse, and friendly team culture. SEB is one of the few student organizations on campus that maintains open admission policies for interested students. This involves not screening students by resumes, majors, or specific engineering-related experiences. SEB firmly believes that these elements are not as important to becoming a contributing member of the team as pure commitment and willingness to learn new skills and have fun! The team’s pattern of mentoring newcomers and turning them into team veterans helps to keep the organization constantly growing, and to develop valuable friendships!

 
 

Programs

Low Altitude Demonstrator Program

The LAD, or Low Altitude Demonstrator, program is meant to develop and test critical technologies on our way to the Karman Line at a smaller scale. Unlike the Eureka program, LAD is comprised of a series of solid rockets that utilize the cost-savings of commercial solid motors to rapidly test, fly, and iterate upon various components that cannot be verified through ground testing, such as certain avionics, structures, and recovery components. These subsystems, refined by the LAD program, ensure that our more expensive liquid rockets can fly predictably and recover safely.

  • November 2018: LAD-1

  • April 2019: LAD-2

  • March 2020: LAD-4 and LAD-4.1:

  • June 2021: LAD-4.1

  • March 2022: LAD-5

  • April 2022: LAD-7

  • June 2022:LAD-8 

  • September 2022: LAD-8.1

  • October 2022: LAD-8X

 
 

Eureka Program

Eureka is SEB's primary rocket program, with the stated aim of sending Eureka-3 past the Kármán Line. The first rocket of this series, Eureka-1 launched successfully in December 2022. We are currently preparing for a Eureka-2 launch, and are well into the planning and design stage for Eureka-3.

  • December 2022: Eureka-1

  • Spring 2024: Eureka-2

  • 2026: Eureka-3

 

We are an ASUC sponsored Registered Student Organization.