FAR-OUT 2026 Competition Results

FAR-OUT 2026 has now come to a close, and it turned out to be a really big year for us! We had well over 200 students and 30 volunteers in attendance, more than 30 spectators over the launch days, 12 teams show up, and 10 rockets launched. We would like to thank all of our teams, including the 18 teams who could not make it out to the competition this year, for all of your hard work and dedication to your projects. We would also like to thank our sponsors and partners: FAR for all of the launch site and administrative support, Mojave Air & Space Port for the Event Center and professional connections, WM for waste management at the site, Impulse, Vast, Muon Space, SpaceX, and Contrail Rockets. We would especially like to thank Vast, Impulse, and Scaled Composites for hosting site tours for our participating students and volunteers.

All of the results of our competition can be found at the link here, but are also shown below. Photos for teams have been posted to a shared Google Drive that can be accessed by all of the teams. Thank you again for your support in the third year of this competition!

Category A - 3,000’-15,000’

1st Place: Wildcat Rocket Engineering Club (WREC), University of Arizona (AZ)
2nd Place: PWr in Space, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Wroclaw PL)
3rd Place: UVU Space Program, Utah Valley University (UT)
4th Place: SimLE SimBa, Gdansk University of Technology (Gdansk PL)
5th Place: Florida Rocket Lab, University of Florida (FL)
7th Place: PUT Rocketlab, Poznan University of Technology (Poznan PL)

Not Fully Recovered:

AGH Space Systems, AGH University of Krakow (Krakow PL)
Propulsion UNAM, Universidade Autonoma de Mexico (Mexico City MX)

Not Launched:

SKA Rocketry, Warsaw University of Technology (Warsaw PL)

Category B: - 20,000’-50,000’

1st Place: WISP, University of Wisconsin (WI)

Not Fully Recovered:

UTK Senior Design Hybrid, University of Tennessee, Knoxville (TN)

Exhibition
Not Launched:
SSTA Big Liquid MkII , University of Tennessee, Knoxville (TN)

Most Efficient Engine (Hybrid): UVU Space Program, Utah Valley University (UT)

Most Efficient Engine (Liquid): PWr in Space, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Wroclaw PL)

Best Podium Presentation: UVU Space Program, Utah Valley University (UT)

Best Technical Report: SKA Rocketry, Warsaw University of Technology (Warsaw PL)

Best Launch Ops: PWr in Space, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Wroclaw PL)

Best GSE: PWr in Space, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology (Wroclaw PL)