PROJECT SUMMARY

Scheduled for launch in Fall 2025 from Mojave, Malibu marks a milestone for the team as the first flight vehicle since reaching space in 2024. Designed with a 6” diameter airframe, Malibu serves as a dedicated development platform to test and validate technologies that will advance the team’s future high-performance rockets. Among its key features are lightweight honeycomb core fins, a dual-deployment recovery system, and a boattail. Additionally, Malibu will carry RPL’s first dedicated payload capsule: CHASER (Capsule for High Altitude Suborbital Environmental Research), which will include its own tracking and recovery system.

By integrating and testing these new systems in a single mission, the Malibu launch will not only advance the team’s engineering capabilities but also lay the groundwork for future space-bound vehicles.