Updates.

Two stories from UCF Space Week feature Project Neptune.

Orlando Sentinel: “‘More than a football game’: UCF touts SpaceU status as students aim for sky-high goals” covers the team at the SpaceU Symposium, with the management committee on the program’s staged test approach and the student interest behind it.

UCF News: “Love Space? Join One of These UCF Student Organizations” profiles AIAA and SEDS among UCF’s space organizations and names the joint sea-launch project with Seagate Space.

Two recent stories give complementary views of Project Neptune.

The Charge: “Students partner with maritime aerospace company to send rocket to space” covers Neptune’s student team, its Seagate Space partnership, and sea-launch recovery challenges.

UCF News: “Mission X: Honoring UCF’s Origin Story for 10th Annual Space Game” places Neptune in the university’s broader space story.

In collaboration with Seagate Space, SEDS at UCF and AIAA at UCF are announcing Project Neptune, an initiative to build UCF's first space shot.

The program is open to every UCF student, undergraduate and graduate, across all majors. It needs engineers. It needs media, marketing, logistics, and communications just as much.

To join, become a member of SEDS or AIAA at UCF, then join the Project Neptune Discord and get verified there. Full steps are on the Join the team section.

Subteam lead applications

Applications for subteam lead positions have closed.

Propulsion

Closed 4 August 2026

Aerostructures, Recovery, Electronics, Systems, Logistics

Closed 7 August 2026